{"id":5444,"date":"2018-10-10T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:38:57","slug":"apple-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/hope\/apple-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KidFeet1-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5461 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KidFeet1-3-450x296.jpg\" alt=\"Four toddler feet on a damp deck with leaves\" width=\"450\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KidFeet1-3-450x296.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KidFeet1-3-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KidFeet1-3-250x164.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KidFeet1-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>When I went apple picking lately with my family, we were told by the woman who sold us two empty half-bushel bags that the farther we went up the hill, the more apples we would find. This advice, though worthy of a life maxim, turned out not to be true. We hardly found enough Cortlands, Macouns and Jonagolds to fill our bags, but the dearth didn\u2019t matter. Three generation strong, we had a sweet time tromping through the long grass and searching the trees for perfection.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s helpful to recall when writing a novel that expectations don\u2019t always match reality. Questions are just as important as answers, even if they\u2019re not comfortable. Sometimes we need to wander in green confusion, searching, discarding options, and holding hands with whomever\u2019s near by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went apple picking lately with my family, we were told by the woman who sold us two empty half-bushel bags that the farther we went up the hill, the more apples we would find. This advice, though worthy of a life maxim, turned out not to be true. We hardly found enough Cortlands, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","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=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}