{"id":1442,"date":"2025-07-27T01:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:39:25","slug":"meet-peggy-from-that-very-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/meet-peggy-from-that-very-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Peggy, from THAT VERY PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Peggy, a New Yorker from an Irish-Catholic family, is living in a nursing home and struggling with dementia. Once a key decision-maker at a top Wall Street firm, she considers the place life has taken her to be humiliating, beneath her dignity. And so she resists. But she\u2019s no longer in charge. She\u2019s no longer respected. She fears sometimes she\u2019s not even seen. The connections she once had\u2014to power, to people who mattered\u2014are no more than memories, replaced now by the haunting presence of siblings long gone, the people who know her secrets. Peggy\u2019s one remaining connection is to Nora, her niece, but the true nature of that connection has been hidden from the start. \u201cBecause Her Hour Is Come,\u201d one of the stories you\u2019ll find in\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/books\/that-very-place\/\">That Very Place,<\/a><\/em><span>\u00a0takes you directly into the torment of a terrible mistake\u2014and the pain of realizing that it can\u2019t be corrected. The story first appeared in\u00a0<\/span><em>The Massachusetts Review.<\/em><span>\u00a0I hope you enjoy this little taste of it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy, a New Yorker from an Irish-Catholic family, is living in a nursing home and struggling with dementia. Once a key decision-maker at a top Wall Street firm, she considers the place life has taken her to be humiliating, beneath her dignity. And so she resists. But she\u2019s no longer in charge. She\u2019s no longer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","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\/1442","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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}