{"id":728,"date":"2022-12-12T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2022-12-12T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:42:49","slug":"read-holy-night-in-the-hyacinth-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/read-holy-night-in-the-hyacinth-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Read &#8220;Holy Night&#8221; in the Hyacinth Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cShe touches his back, and even through her thick glove she can feel the warmth of him, the sobbing, and what she hopes is longing for something other than an end.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hyacinthreview.org\/mary-ann-mcguigan-holy-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read &#8220;Holy Night&#8221; in the Hyacinth Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Story&#8217;s Catalyst: Addiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few conditions are more common\u2014or more baffling and mysterious\u2014than addiction. For countless families, the ugly, disheartening effects of alcoholism reappear in generation after generation, much like a curse they can&#8217;t escape. For the lucky few, sobriety is achieved and life has a chance to begin anew. More often, that&#8217;s not the case. Maggie, in &#8220;Holy Night,&#8221; is not unique. She&#8217;s heard all the promises before, witnessed the slow destruction. She knows what her son&#8217;s drinking has done and will do again. She understands, finally, that she can&#8217;t change him. She also knows she may not be able to stop trying.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe touches his back, and even through her thick glove she can feel the warmth of him, the sobbing, and what she hopes is longing for something other than an end.&#8221; Read &#8220;Holy Night&#8221; in the Hyacinth Review The Story&#8217;s Catalyst: Addiction Few conditions are more common\u2014or more baffling and mysterious\u2014than addiction. For countless families,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","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\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}