{"id":5691,"date":"2020-06-01T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2020-06-01T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T14:46:14","slug":"where-i-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/hope\/where-i-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_4043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_4043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>I regularly feel like a coward, the exact opposite of the brave characters who people my novels. In my private life, I am outraged by injustice. The tragic murder of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_George_Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd<\/a> sickens me and haunts my nightmares. Yet I\u2019m reluctant to say anything publicly the way other writers I admire do. I reason that people who agree with me don\u2019t need more revving up, and that the people who don\u2019t agree with me will shut me out. I don\u2019t trust the Internet to be a safe place for my opinions, and at the same time, I also can\u2019t believe I matter enough that anyone, any strangers, really care what I think.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m silent normally. I channel my opinions into my art and hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p>But in case anyone is listening, I\u2019m grieving and angry. We are a splintered country on a hurting planet. We are in for a deadly summer of scapegoating and violence. And at the same time, I see beauty and resolve all around me. I believe in our children and keeping them safe \u2014 all of them, black, white and brown. It\u2019s time to end racial injustice. It&#8217;s time to change the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly feel like a coward, the exact opposite of the brave characters who people my novels. In my private life, I am outraged by injustice. The tragic murder of George Floyd sickens me and haunts my nightmares. Yet I\u2019m reluctant to say anything publicly the way other writers I admire do. I reason that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[1070,871],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-george-floyd","tag-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","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=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5692,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}