{"id":10965,"date":"2009-01-28T20:25:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/moments_of_clarity_puts_addiction_in_perspective\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T20:25:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T20:25:37","slug":"moments_of_clarity_puts_addiction_in_perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10965","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Moments of Clarity&#39; puts addiction in perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Kennedy Lawford&#8217;s first book was about his recovery from alcohol and heroin.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Lawford has a new book out, Moments of Clarity: Voices From the Front Lines of Addiction, a compilation of 42 essays by ordinary people and celebrities including Martin Sheen, Susan Cheever, Alec Baldwin and Judy Collins, describing moments that led them to reach out for help.<\/p>\n<p>In it, he describes his own &#8220;moment of clarity&#8221; on Feb. 17, 1986. He was standing at the windows of a brownstone in Boston and realized his addiction had reached the point of hopelessness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-01-27-lawford-clarity_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Kennedy Lawford&#8217;s first book was about his recovery from alcohol and heroin. Now, Lawford has a new book out, Moments of Clarity: Voices From the Front Lines of Addiction, a compilation of 42 essays by ordinary people and celebrities<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10965\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-drugsdrug-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}