{"id":1469,"date":"2012-10-16T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:18:20","slug":"waiting-by-carol-lynch-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Waiting by Carol Lynch Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1512\" title=\"Waiting\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Waiting1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>London and Zach traveled the world with their missionary parents all throughout their childhood, so it was easy for the siblings to become best friends.\u00a0 Now that Zach is gone, though, it means that London has a hole in her heart AND her life.\u00a0 She simply doesn\u2019t know how to exist without her brother and best friend.\u00a0 [Is it OK to smile or to laugh when your brother has killed himself?]\u00a0 Even worse is the fact that her mother hasn\u2019t talked to, looked at, or hugged her in the more than six months since Zach died.\u00a0 London expects that it\u2019s because her mother thinks it\u2019s her fault.\u00a0 With the help of friends, old and new, London is doing her best to pick up the pieces of her heart and move on with her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London and Zach traveled the world with their missionary parents all throughout their childhood, so it was easy for the siblings to become best friends.\u00a0 Now that Zach is gone, though, it means that London has a hole in her heart AND her life.\u00a0 She simply doesn\u2019t know how to exist without her brother and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting by Carol Lynch Williams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}