{"id":565,"date":"2021-12-17T12:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:01:48","slug":"https-fragmentedvoices-com-2021-12-17-the-broken-place-by-mary-ann-mcguigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/https-fragmentedvoices-com-2021-12-17-the-broken-place-by-mary-ann-mcguigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Read &#8220;The Broken Place,&#8221; my story published in the journal Fragmented Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;He didn\u2019t want to have a child before he had a life. When Irene went ahead and had it anyway, he didn\u2019t complain, but he didn\u2019t understand, and he didn\u2019t talk much anymore. Their life became a different place, and he didn\u2019t know the language. All that mattered was the regimen of feeding and caring, except he didn\u2019t care, not the way he was supposed to, not until she got sick.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-fragmented-voices wp-block-embed-fragmented-voices\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4xUFZu1gDB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fragmentedvoices.com\/2021\/12\/17\/the-broken-place-by-mary-ann-mcguigan\/\">&#8216;The Broken Place&#8217; by Mary Ann McGuigan<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;&#8216;The Broken Place&#8217; by Mary Ann McGuigan&#8221; &#8212; Fragmented Voices\" src=\"https:\/\/fragmentedvoices.com\/2021\/12\/17\/the-broken-place-by-mary-ann-mcguigan\/embed\/#?secret=uYRlBrDXZl#?secret=4xUFZu1gDB\" data-secret=\"4xUFZu1gDB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He didn\u2019t want to have a child before he had a life. When Irene went ahead and had it anyway, he didn\u2019t complain, but he didn\u2019t understand, and he didn\u2019t talk much anymore. Their life became a different place, and he didn\u2019t know the language. All that mattered was the regimen of feeding and caring,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9,10,11],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-civil-rights-movement","tag-interracial-friendship","tag-literary-fiction","tag-young-adult-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}