{"id":1438,"date":"2025-08-01T01:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:37:15","slug":"meet-eileen-from-that-very-place-shes-got-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/meet-eileen-from-that-very-place-shes-got-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Eileen, from That Very Place. She\u2019s got a problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Eileen\u2019s imagination rarely fails her. She\u2019s darn good at making stuff up, especially when it comes to hiding what she\u2019s most ashamed of: a dad who didn\u2019t care about her. It\u2019s an ache she thought she\u2019d outgrow. After all, she\u2019s got all the trappings of a happy life: a good husband, beautiful kids, an obedient dog. But when dear old dad finally gets around to meeting his maker, the old wound opens up.\u00a0<\/span><em>Did he ever love her? Or even give her a thought?<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>Her tall tales don\u2019t take the edge off the pain anymore. She needs the truth. In \u201cThe Sorrow for Her Loss,\u201d Eileen sets out to find her answers. And she does\u2014in a place she never wanted to be from an old woman she never expected to meet. This story, which has appeared in\u00a0<\/span><em>Stygian Lepus,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>grew into my novel<\/span><em><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/books\/crossing-into-brooklyn\/\">Crossing Into Brooklyn.<\/a><\/em><span>\u00a0I hope you enjoy this little taste of it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen\u2019s imagination rarely fails her. She\u2019s darn good at making stuff up, especially when it comes to hiding what she\u2019s most ashamed of: a dad who didn\u2019t care about her. It\u2019s an ache she thought she\u2019d outgrow. After all, she\u2019s got all the trappings of a happy life: a good husband, beautiful kids, an obedient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","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\/1438","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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}