{"id":815,"date":"2011-06-14T13:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=815"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:36:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:36:25","slug":"elegies-for-the-brokenhearted-by-christie-hodgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Elegies For the Brokenhearted by Christie Hodgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-828 size-full\" title=\"Elegies for the Brokenhearted\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Elegies-for-the-Brokenhearted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who are the people you&#8217;ll never forget? \u00a0For Mary Murphy, there are five:\u00a0 A skirt-chasing, car-racing uncle with whiskey breath and a three-day beard. \u00a0A &#8220;walking joke, a sitting duck, a fish in a barrel&#8221; named Elwood LePoer. \u00a0A dirt-poor college roommate who conceals an unbearable secret. \u00a0A failed piano prodigy lost in middle age.\u00a0 A beautiful mother haunted by her once-great aspirations.\u00a0 In five quirky elegies to lost friends and relatives, Mary tells us the story of her life.\u00a0 With a rhythmically unique voice and pitch-perfect wry humor, Christie Hodgen spins an unconventional and moving story about identity, belonging, and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the people you&#8217;ll never forget? \u00a0For Mary Murphy, there are five:\u00a0 A skirt-chasing, car-racing uncle with whiskey breath and a three-day beard. \u00a0A &#8220;walking joke, a sitting duck, a fish in a barrel&#8221; named Elwood LePoer. \u00a0A dirt-poor college roommate who conceals an unbearable secret. \u00a0A failed piano prodigy lost in middle age.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elegies For the Brokenhearted by Christie Hodgen<\/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":[3,4,8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-govie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}