{"id":1436,"date":"2025-08-04T01:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:36:21","slug":"more-praise-for-that-very-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/more-praise-for-that-very-place\/","title":{"rendered":"More Praise for That Very Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all strive to be honest with ourselves. But how many of us would be ready to admit we\u2019ve been \u201ccomplicit in the traumas inflicted on the people we love\u201d? In \u201cLast of the Darlin\u2019 Boys,\u201d Maureen adores her grandson, shielding him since childhood from the consequences of his mistakes, no matter how grave. She\u2019s beginning to understand the damage she\u2019s done to him and to herself, but can she find the strength to stop protecting him?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all had times in our lives when \u201cduty collides with yearning,\u201d times when we can\u2019t let go of the outcome we hoped for. In \u201cBeloved,\u201d Maria is prepared to put her newborn up for adoption. She\u2019s ready to deny the feelings she has for the baby, to turn her back on her parents\u2019 old-school values, on the idea of having a family of her own\u2014because if she keeps the child, she cannot keep the man she loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all strive to be honest with ourselves. But how many of us would be ready to admit we\u2019ve been \u201ccomplicit in the traumas inflicted on the people we love\u201d? In \u201cLast of the Darlin\u2019 Boys,\u201d Maureen adores her grandson, shielding him since childhood from the consequences of his mistakes, no matter how grave. She\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","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\/1436","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=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}