{"id":2195,"date":"2018-09-19T18:59:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T06:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2018-10-19T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:08:33","slug":"a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-lara-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2018\/09\/19\/a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-lara-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"A Selfie as Big as the Ritz &#8212; Lara Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2166\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-e1537354027373-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"884\" data-wp-pid=\"2166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-e1537354027373-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-e1537354027373-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-e1537354027373-768x1061.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-e1537354027373-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-e1537354027373-1200x1658.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> I loved this book of short stories even though most of them don&#8217;t end especially happily. The stories are written in a variety of voices, but almost all concern young women navigating problematic relationships. (Some of the women are older; some stories focus on men; but relationships are a constant.) Reading each story feels like inhabiting the character. It&#8217;s fun to be in someone else&#8217;s skin for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this book of short stories even though most of them don&#8217;t end especially happily. The stories are written in a variety of voices, but almost all concern young women navigating problematic relationships. (Some of the women are older; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2018\/09\/19\/a-selfie-as-big-as-the-ritz-lara-williams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,142,64],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-lara-williams","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}