{"id":2265,"date":"2012-10-01T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2012-10-01T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:21:42","slug":"the-walls-and-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/the-walls-and-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walls and the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2267\" title=\"SwirlStair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SwirlStair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"215\" \/>Several years back, I lived with my family in the walled city of Ferrara, Italy.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castelloestense.it\/eng\/castello\/\" target=\"_blank\">Castello Estense<\/a> with its dungeons and moat dominates the center, and the medieval wall still surrounds the perimeter.\u00a0 For me, however, the real barrier was my stumbling Italian and my lack of friends.\u00a0 I joined a chorus, and as long as we were singing, I was unified with the others.\u00a0 The moment we stopped and the conductor began speaking in Italian, I was cast out once again by my inability to understand.\u00a0 It was a jarring and wonderful experience, and I still listen to our recording of Lotti\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OZ9dXLmRlpo\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCrucifixus.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2216\" title=\"PromBlogTour100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PromBlogTour100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"98\" \/>Today, the <em>Promised<\/em> Blog Tour takes me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areadersadventure.com\/2012\/10\/promised-blog-tour-guest-post-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Reader\u2019s Adventure<\/a>, where Mariah asks me about how I created such different societies in the <em>Birthmarked<\/em> trilogy.\u00a0 We have walls of all kinds.\u00a0 The trick is to find our ways around and under them until the stones dissolve. \u00a0<em>Promised<\/em>, the final book in the <em>Birthmarked<\/em> trilogy, comes out tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years back, I lived with my family in the walled city of Ferrara, Italy.\u00a0 The Castello Estense with its dungeons and moat dominates the center, and the medieval wall still surrounds the perimeter.\u00a0 For me, however, the real barrier was my stumbling Italian and my lack of friends.\u00a0 I joined a chorus, and as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked","category-promised-2","tag-promised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}