{"id":21159,"date":"2010-08-08T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr-ties_that_bind_a_bittersweet_tale_of_friendship\/"},"modified":"2010-08-08T23:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T23:00:02","slug":"npr-ties_that_bind_a_bittersweet_tale_of_friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21159","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8211;Ties That Bind: A Bittersweet Tale Of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gail Caldwell, a Texas transplant in Boston, was happy with her life. In her early 40s, Caldwell kept busy by writing book reviews and training a new dog \u201d\u201d she wasn&#8217;t really looking for friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Then she met Caroline Knapp, another writer living in Boston, and gradually their lives became thoroughly intertwined. Until the day Caroline died of lung cancer at 42.<\/p>\n<p>Now Caldwell has written a memoir, Let&#8217;s Take the Long Way Home, that describes the unique, sisterly bond she shared with Knapp.<\/p>\n<p>These two women may not have grown up down the street from one another or attended the same schools, but their friendship was just as strong as if they had.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129033332\">Listen to it all (just over 8 1\/2 minutes)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gail Caldwell, a Texas transplant in Boston, was happy with her life. In her early 40s, Caldwell kept busy by writing book reviews and training a new dog \u201d\u201d she wasn&#8217;t really looking for friendship. Then she met Caroline Knapp,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21159\">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":[48,39,438,184,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-parish-ministry","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21159","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=21159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}