{"id":93096,"date":"2020-05-23T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93096"},"modified":"2020-05-23T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T17:37:26","slug":"saturday-food-for-thought-from-ann-patchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93096","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Food for Thought From Ann Patchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThere are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you&#8217;d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you&#8217;re suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Ann Patchett, <b>The Dutch House<\/b> (New York: Harper, 2019), page 121<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Book of the Day: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BloomsburyBooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BloomsburyBooks<\/a>, \u00a38.99 post free from bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk. Reviewed here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WZqFVmuX3a\">https:\/\/t.co\/WZqFVmuX3a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hPLrsf0PON\">pic.twitter.com\/hPLrsf0PON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Five Leaves Bookshop (@FiveLeavesBooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FiveLeavesBooks\/status\/1264208936405794816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you&#8217;d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93096\">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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93096","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=93096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93099,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93096\/revisions\/93099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}