{"id":1756,"date":"2015-11-15T04:31:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2015-11-13T04:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T04:33:29","slug":"sunday-sentence-god-bless-america-by-steve-almond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/sunday-sentence-god-bless-america-by-steve-almond\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sentence: God Bless America by Steve Almond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading them, so now I&#8217;m joining the #SundaySentence party started by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidabramsbooks.com\">David Abrams<\/a> over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Sunday%20Sentence\">Quivering Pen<\/a>\u00a0and on Twitter. It&#8217;s not a review. It&#8217;s not a story. It&#8217;s just one sentence I read this week, presented &#8220;out of context and without commentary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Sunday Sentence:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was true, like most things his father said, which made it no less cruel.&#8221; From &#8220;Hagar&#8217;s Sons,&#8221; a story in Steve Almond&#8217;s collection,\u00a0<strong><em>God Bless America.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1757 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2432-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2432\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading them, so now I&#8217;m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen\u00a0and on Twitter. It&#8217;s not a review.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/sunday-sentence-god-bless-america-by-steve-almond\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,431],"tags":[432,80,433,434,415],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethmarro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}