{"id":865,"date":"2023-12-19T17:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:28:53","slug":"read-the-betrayal-creative-nonfiction-memoir-in-moria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/read-the-betrayal-creative-nonfiction-memoir-in-moria\/","title":{"rendered":"Read &#8220;The Betrayal,&#8221; Creative Nonfiction, in Moria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a family struggling to make ends meet, there\u2019s rarely any need to debate how money is spent. Paying the bills comes first\u2014if you\u2019re lucky\u2014everything else is a distant second. By the time I was a high school senior, my mom had been supporting me and three of my siblings for almost a decade, working two jobs, with no help from my abusive, alcoholic father. So the good news of my acceptance to college was not really so good, because we couldn\u2019t afford the tuition. Not even a full scholarship could solve the problem, because my mom didn\u2019t need a scholar in the family, she needed someone to find a job and help pay the bills. In \u201cThe Betrayal,\u201d I try to convey what it was like for me as a teenager to want something\u2014even something good\u2014when it could only make life harder for the person I loved most in the world, a woman hoping for a better life at a time when help was in short supply. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moriaonline.com\/issue-twelve-640718-am\/2023\/12\/11\/-the-betrayal-by-mary-ann-mcguigan\">https:\/\/www.moriaonline.com\/issue-twelve-640718-am\/2023\/12\/11\/-the-betrayal-by-mary-ann-mcguigan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a family struggling to make ends meet, there\u2019s rarely any need to debate how money is spent. Paying the bills comes first\u2014if you\u2019re lucky\u2014everything else is a distant second. By the time I was a high school senior, my mom had been supporting me and three of my siblings for almost a decade, working&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,18,19],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-single-mothers","tag-single-parent-families","tag-teenagers-living-in-poverty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}