{"id":815,"date":"2023-08-02T15:18:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:18:05","slug":"read-to-have-and-hold-creative-nonfiction-in-the-phare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/read-to-have-and-hold-creative-nonfiction-in-the-phare\/","title":{"rendered":"Read &#8220;To Have and Hold,&#8221; Creative Nonfiction, in The Phare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marriage late in life is like walking a tightrope without a net. A misstep could be fatal, a break may not have time to mend. A lover\u2019s past can create a distance impossible to close. When two people meet after decades of life lived\u2014children raised, goals achieved or abandoned, loves that failed\u2014time has a way of eroding the details, muting their power. Sharing the things that made us who we are becomes an exercise in futility, like reporting from the front when the battle is over. We omit ugly details, reapportion blame, pretend something is over when it\u2019s not. Stories told through a sieve. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thephare.com\/tohaveandhold\">https:\/\/www.thephare.com\/tohaveandhold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage late in life is like walking a tightrope without a net. A misstep could be fatal, a break may not have time to mend. A lover\u2019s past can create a distance impossible to close. When two people meet after decades of life lived\u2014children raised, goals achieved or abandoned, loves that failed\u2014time has a way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","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\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}