{"id":682,"date":"2008-08-04T10:21:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2008-08-04T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:21:05","slug":"a-small-bench-by-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"A Small Bench By the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mercy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-687 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mercy.jpg?w=240\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mercy.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mercy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mercy-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a>It has been over twenty years since Toni Morrison wrote her groundbreaking novel <em>Beloved<\/em>. With a long awaited novel The Mercy, coming out in November and billed as a &#8220;companion piece to Beloved,&#8221; Morrison has a lot to celebrate. But, a simple commemoration on Sullivan&#8217;s Island in South Carolina may be an equal cause for celebration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/28\/arts\/design\/28benc.html?_r=1&amp;ref=books&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over twenty years since Toni Morrison wrote her groundbreaking novel Beloved. With a long awaited novel The Mercy, coming out in November and billed as a &#8220;companion piece to Beloved,&#8221; Morrison has a lot to celebrate. But, a simple commemoration on Sullivan&#8217;s Island in South Carolina may be an equal cause for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-b0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}