{"id":8820,"date":"2014-10-19T21:53:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/10\/19\/not-only-do-i-feel-an-intense-connection-with-my\/"},"modified":"2014-10-19T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:53:20","slug":"not-only-do-i-feel-an-intense-connection-with-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/10\/19\/not-only-do-i-feel-an-intense-connection-with-my\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Not only do I feel an intense connection with my earlier, often more vulnerable and intensely curious self, I also feel that I\u2019ve been given access to a pure form of the complications involved with being young, now filtered through the compassion, perceptions (and barnacles) of my older self.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Look Homeward, Reader &#8211; Meg Wolitzer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/19\/fashion\/a-not-so-young-audience-for-young-adult-books.html?referrer&amp;_r=0\">http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/19\/fashion\/a-not-so-young-audience-for-young-adult-books.html?referrer&amp;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>a very good summary of why I still love YA books. they connect me to a time when I didn&rsquo;t understand but wanted to, and I understand better now, so there&rsquo;s a significant emotional connection to a simpler time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do I feel an intense connection with my earlier, often more vulnerable and intensely curious self, I also feel that I\u2019ve been given access to a pure form of the complications involved with being young, now filtered through the compassion, perceptions (and barnacles) of my older self. Look Homeward, Reader &#8211; Meg Wolitzer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/10\/19\/not-only-do-i-feel-an-intense-connection-with-my\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1470,1069,4733],"class_list":["post-8820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quotes","tag-reading","tag-ya","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}