{"id":3906,"date":"2010-06-24T13:04:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2010-06-24T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:04:57","slug":"summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-family\/summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/4729888610\/\" title=\"nana's manuscript by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1173\/4729888610_9af8d5201e_z.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"nana's manuscript\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I got my hands on my grandmother&#8217;s memoir manuscript. My mother has been keeping it unavailable for as long as I&#8217;ve known about it. That&#8217;s because it is my grandmother&#8217;s first-person account of her descent into what she straight-up calls insanity, and that is a particularly and understandably painful subject for my mom. Nana was bipolar (I) and schizophrenic, with a long stretch of alcoholism thrown in there. She spent some time in mental wards and received shock treatments. I know all these hazy stories about her past and the unbelievable things she did when my mom and aunt were kids, and I have always wanted to know these stories from my grandmother&#8217;s perspective. Now, in my bookbag, is a double-spaced, typed manuscript, complete with pseudonym key and chapter outline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I got my hands on my grandmother&#8217;s memoir manuscript. My mother has been keeping it unavailable for as long as I&#8217;ve known about it. That&#8217;s because it is my grandmother&#8217;s first-person account of her descent into what she straight-up calls insanity, and that is a particularly and understandably painful subject for my mom. Nana was bipolar (I) and schizophrenic, with a long stretch of alcoholism thrown in there. She spent some time in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2195,1469,2259],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-family","tag-books","tag-nana","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-110","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}