{"id":1616,"date":"2011-03-07T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2011-03-09T23:28:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T06:28:35","slug":"new-week-new-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"New Week; New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Glass Castle\" src=\"\/2011\/glasscastle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Glass Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This month, our book group is reading <em>The Glass Castle<\/em> by Jeannette Walls. \u00a0It&#8217;s a memoir about growing up in a seriously crazy family. \u00a0I mean, crazy. \u00a0The book consists of short stories or\u00a0remembrances and is very hard to believe. \u00a0It&#8217;s as if the parents had read a parenting book and then applied all the principles in exactly the opposite fashion. \u00a0I have a feeling it will lead to very interesting discussion\u00a0among my group of moms.<\/p>\n<p>I have read several life stories where the parents were pretty much absent from the scene and so the kids had to become the providers. \u00a0They learned to take care of themselves and their siblings. \u00a0They became independent, inventive and smart because they had to in order to survive their childhood. \u00a0So does that mean the parents were doing right? \u00a0Do we keep our kids sheltered in childhood too long? \u00a0Is some level of neglect needed to help a child reach their full potential? \u00a0Deep thoughts for a Monday. \u00a0Good thing I have a few more weeks before ponder&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, our book group is reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. \u00a0It&#8217;s a memoir about growing up in a seriously crazy family. \u00a0I mean, crazy. \u00a0The book consists of short stories or\u00a0remembrances and is very hard to believe. \u00a0It&#8217;s as if the parents had read a parenting book and then applied all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-q4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}