{"id":834,"date":"2023-09-20T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2023-09-20T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:33:33","slug":"read-the-carriage-room-creative-nonfiction-in-x-r-a-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/read-the-carriage-room-creative-nonfiction-in-x-r-a-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Read &#8220;The carriage Room,&#8221; creative nonfiction in X-R-A-Y"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Memories are sometimes like an uneven chain, linking the most unrelated events. The musty smell of a dark room in a tenement basement brings back not just the discomfort of being inside it but also the echoes of what happened there. In this case, my brother\u2019s misplaced revenge against a tenant who tried to do our family harm. The attempt only backfired but the whole business brought back how limited my family\u2019s choices were. There were things we couldn\u2019t escape\u2014whether it meant living in darkness or losing a comrade to Agent Orange. But pride\u2014or sometimes survival\u2014often called for breaking the rules. And my brother was unflinching about it.    <a href=\"https:\/\/xraylitmag.com\/the-carriage-room-by-mary-ann-mcguigan\/cnf\/\">https:\/\/xraylitmag.com\/the-carriage-room-by-mary-ann-mcguigan\/cnf\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories are sometimes like an uneven chain, linking the most unrelated events. The musty smell of a dark room in a tenement basement brings back not just the discomfort of being inside it but also the echoes of what happened there. In this case, my brother\u2019s misplaced revenge against a tenant who tried to do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","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\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}