{"id":882,"date":"2024-01-10T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2024-01-10T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T12:48:08","slug":"read-the-party-favor-creative-nonfiction-in-new-world-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/read-the-party-favor-creative-nonfiction-in-new-world-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Party Favor,&#8221; Creative Nonfiction, in New World Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feeling like an outsider is not unique to young people growing up with a parent who makes barely enough money to get by. At one point or another, most kids fear they won\u2019t be accepted\u2014maybe at a new school, or on a new team, or by some unapproachable <em>in<\/em> crowd. In \u201cParty Favor,\u201d I try to recapture the excitement of being unexpectedly invited to a birthday party for one of those unapproachable people, a classmate who had pretty clothes and pretty friends and no need to notice the girls who didn\u2019t, girls like me. But in a family struggling to make ends meet, even a simple birthday present can break the budget. My mom did her best to come up with a gift\u2014albeit one that would baffle a sixth grader\u2014but the real gift that day was for me, an unexpected kindness that I\u2019ve never forgotten.  <a href=\"https:\/\/newworldwriting.net\/mary-ann-mcguigan-the-party-favor\/\">https:\/\/newworldwriting.net\/mary-ann-mcguigan-the-party-favor\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling like an outsider is not unique to young people growing up with a parent who makes barely enough money to get by. At one point or another, most kids fear they won\u2019t be accepted\u2014maybe at a new school, or on a new team, or by some unapproachable in crowd. In \u201cParty Favor,\u201d I try&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","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\/882","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=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}