{"id":2768,"date":"2013-04-16T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2013-04-16T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:52:35","slug":"all-the-more-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/all-the-more-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"All the More Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2769\" alt=\"Steps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Steps.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"226\" \/>When my heart\u2019s aching for Boston, and every connection to the outside world reminds me of the confusion, heroism, and pain there, I find it hard to concentrate on writing a children\u2019s book.\u00a0 Then I realize it\u2019s more important than ever to carry on and do what I\u2019m supposed to do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t write fiction by ignoring the latest shocking proof of evil in our world, and I don\u2019t do it out of angry righteousness.\u00a0 I keep working simply because it is a gift to be able to work, and this time I have been spared, and I can only hope I\u2019m contributing to the forward motion of humanity, not its downfall.<\/p>\n<p>My prayers go out to the families of Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my heart\u2019s aching for Boston, and every connection to the outside world reminds me of the confusion, heroism, and pain there, I find it hard to concentrate on writing a children\u2019s book.\u00a0 Then I realize it\u2019s more important than ever to carry on and do what I\u2019m supposed to do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t write fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","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=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}