{"id":2032,"date":"2016-09-15T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2016-11-05T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T02:32:14","slug":"the-rainbow-comes-and-goes-a-mother-and-son-on-life-love-and-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt, 2016, Harper<\/p>\n<p>This book is basically a compilation of emails that Anderson Cooper exchanged with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, when she was over ninety years old.\u00c2\u00a0 I was impressed with how sharp and articulat his mother is at this advanced age.<\/p>\n<p>The book encapsulates the kind of conversation we should all have with our parents before they are gone.\u00c2\u00a0 My own conversation with my mother was not very deep.\u00c2\u00a0 I did have several good exchanges with my father before he died, but not as deep as the conversations that were captured in this book.<\/p>\n<p>What I learned was that it is important to ask your parents probing questions about their lives.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a lot to learn.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s too late for me, but maybe\u00c2\u00a0I can\u00c2\u00a0have these \u00c2\u00a0conversations with my sons before I, too, am no longer here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt, 2016, Harper This book is basically a compilation of emails that Anderson Cooper exchanged with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, when she was over ninety years old.\u00c2\u00a0 I was impressed with how sharp and articulat <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2032\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,16],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-memoir","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}