{"id":2044,"date":"2010-03-22T18:09:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2010-03-22T18:09:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:09:01","slug":"the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Road-Cormac-McCarthy\/dp\/B001OV2GRE\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269299162&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\">The Road<\/a>&#8221; last night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still sorting out how I feel. It was incredibly &#8230;&#8230;.oh so many adjectives. Moving. Depressing. Illustrative. Gorgeously written. Imaginative. Solid. Thinking book.<\/p>\n<p>This quote &#8211; I read it over and over when I arrived at it in the book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.  As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What  you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014        <a title=\"view all quotes by Cormac McCarthy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4178.Cormac_McCarthy\">Cormac  McCarthy<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/quotes\/350540\">The Road<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It gives you an idea of the thought-provoking prose that gracefully flows from nearly every page;\u00a0 my little  book-reading gnomes in my brain are still sitting by the fireplace, feet up,  pondering and ruminating on all the facets in this book. What I suppose I find so haunting is that the whole book, in my memory of reading it, feels so parallel to my over-arching grief process. There is sadness. There is inevitability. But through all of the darkness, there is an unbreakable strand of pure shining silvery light, the love between a parent and a child, and it isn&#8217;t the darkness that makes me cry, but the joy of still being able to see the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s book &#8220;The Road&#8221; last night. I&#8217;m still sorting out how I feel. It was incredibly &#8230;&#8230;.oh so many adjectives. Moving. Depressing. Illustrative. Gorgeously written. Imaginative. Solid. Thinking book. This quote &#8211; I read it over and over when I arrived at it in the book. &#8220;He thought each memory recalled must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,29,75],"tags":[87,89,143,142,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}