{"id":994,"date":"2024-03-08T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2024-03-08T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:44:10","slug":"rites-of-passage-new-fiction-in-invisible-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/rites-of-passage-new-fiction-in-invisible-city\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rites of Passage,&#8221; New Fiction, in Invisible City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So many writers are told \u201cwrite what you know.\u201d I doubt many ideas worth reading would reach the page if we all followed that rule. Still, it\u2019s a challenge to imagine someone, especially a teenager, having to face the kind of terror depicted in \u201cRites of Passage.\u201d When the source of the terror is a parent, the child\u2019s options are few and fearful, because the consequences of revealing such a terrible secret may be dire for everyone involved. \u201cRites of Passage,\u201d a shortened version of a story included in <em>That Very Place<\/em> (my collection due out next year), offers a haunting look at how a young girl struggles to protect her sister from a betrayal she knows only too well.   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invisiblecitylit.com\/fiction\/rites-of-passage\/\">https:\/\/www.invisiblecitylit.com\/fiction\/rites-of-passage\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many writers are told \u201cwrite what you know.\u201d I doubt many ideas worth reading would reach the page if we all followed that rule. Still, it\u2019s a challenge to imagine someone, especially a teenager, having to face the kind of terror depicted in \u201cRites of Passage.\u201d When the source of the terror is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","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\/994","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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}