{"id":1832,"date":"2009-03-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:15:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:15:15","slug":"the-hour-i-first-believed-by-wally-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Hour I First Believed&#8221; by Wally Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one awesome book. It is a novel about Caelum Quirk and his wife Maureen who are an English teacher and school nurse respectively at Columbine High School in Colorado. Caelum is in Connecticut attending to a deceased aunt&#8217;s affairs when Maureen is trapped in a cabinet during the Columbine murders. Maureen survives but is badly traumatized and her life slowly spins out of control as the years go by.<\/p>\n<p>There is a a parallel story concerning the Caelum&#8217;s ancestors and how their lives were messed up by the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Through all this Caelum slowly finds out secrets about himself and his forbears. He also finds out love, steadfastness, and honor. And why he is so messed up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really doing this book justice. This may be one of the best books I have ever read. Lets just say it is over 700 pages and I tore through it in five days.<\/p>\n<p>This book is four stars out of four. Read it if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one awesome book. It is a novel about Caelum Quirk and his wife Maureen who are an English teacher and school nurse respectively at Columbine High School in Colorado. Caelum is in Connecticut attending to a deceased aunt&#8217;s affairs when Maureen is trapped in a cabinet during the Columbine murders. Maureen survives but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}