{"id":4105,"date":"2016-03-31T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2016-03-31T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T19:53:24","slug":"a-common-struggle-by-patrick-j-kennedy-and-stephen-fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4105","title":{"rendered":"A Common Struggle by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4131\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1616236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4131\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Common-Struggle-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Common Struggle\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Common-Struggle-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Common-Struggle.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This book was so wonderful on so many levels. \u00a0I thought Patrick Kennedy was very brave to write it &#8211; and I absolutely understand why it was written after his father&#8217;s passing.\u00a0 The way he grew up hearing\u00a0from his dad and very extended famous family\u00a0that we keep everything in the family and don&#8217;t air our dirty laundry helped to keep him from truly confronting and defeating his own demons.\u00a0 The authors do a great job in giving information about how our healthcare system and government succeed and fail at treating people with mental illness and addiction. \u00a0Ultimately this is a book about successes and failures, but mostly about hope in dealing with these\u00a0two very important issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was so wonderful on so many levels. \u00a0I thought Patrick Kennedy was very brave to write it &#8211; and I absolutely understand why it was written after his father&#8217;s passing.\u00a0 The way he grew up hearing\u00a0from his dad and very extended famous family\u00a0that we keep everything in the family and don&#8217;t air our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Common Struggle by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried<\/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":[3,4,10,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","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=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}