{"id":341,"date":"2009-11-02T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T04:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2015-06-04T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T03:59:41","slug":"the-hour-i-first-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"The Hour I First Believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>by Wally Lamb, 2008, HarperCollins Books, New York<\/p>\n<p>This is a book about a married couple who were employed as a teacher and a school nurse at Columbine High School when the massacre occurred.\u00c2\u00a0 It focuses on the trauma it caused and their attempts to return to a normal existence after the event.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed reading the book but thought that Lamb meandered into the main character&#8217;s family history a bit too much.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a hard time tying all that history into the current situation.\u00c2\u00a0 The book could have been a bit shorter and it could have been more compelling.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"three stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"three stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0by Wally Lamb, 2008, HarperCollins Books, New York This is a book about a married couple who were employed as a teacher and a school nurse at Columbine High School when the massacre occurred.\u00c2\u00a0 It focuses on the trauma it <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=341\"><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":[15],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}