{"id":1138,"date":"2024-12-06T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:11:15","slug":"the-assignment-a-pushcart-prize-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/the-assignment-a-pushcart-prize-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Assignment,&#8221; a Pushcart Prize Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m so grateful to the editors at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sweetlit.org\/mary-ann-mcguigan-volume-17\/\">Sweet<\/a><\/em>, who published &#8220;The Assignment,&#8221; a creative nonfiction piece, in September and have now nominated it for a Pushcart Prize. It&#8217;s about a very special high school teacher of mine, who challenged us to go where writing takes us, however sloppy or ugly that place may be, then carefully, ruthlessly retrace our steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so grateful to the editors at Sweet, who published &#8220;The Assignment,&#8221; a creative nonfiction piece, in September and have now nominated it for a Pushcart Prize. It&#8217;s about a very special high school teacher of mine, who challenged us to go where writing takes us, however sloppy or ugly that place may be, then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}