{"id":5343,"date":"2006-09-20T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2013-02-01T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T19:57:13","slug":"last-dance-with-mary-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5343","title":{"rendered":"Last dance with Mary Jane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebunnyblog.com\/\">Bunny <\/a>is one of the best writers on this here web (and maybe anywhere else, frankly) &#8230; and I have been living her multi-chaptered story about being in <i>42nd Street <\/i>in high school.  Seriously.  This woman is so good I don&#8217;t know what to say.  She makes me want to be braver.  More open.  More honest.  Messier.<\/p>\n<p>She inspires me.<\/p>\n<p>The piece is a time-commitment.  She&#8217;s a real writer.  Read it like you would a short story, or a long article in the <i>New Yorker<\/i> or <i>Atlantic<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so so moved right now and I must go cry for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I knew we were moving towards something &#8211; as she slowly posted each part.  I succumbed to her details, her character sketches,  her beautifully and humorously described moments, I succumbed to the moment &#8230; to HER moment &#8230; knowing that I was in good hands.<\/p>\n<p><b>Last Dance with Mary Jane &#8211; <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebunnyblog.com\/archives\/last_dance_with_mary_jane.phtml\">Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebunnyblog.com\/archives\/last_dance_with_mary_jane_part_ii.phtml\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebunnyblog.com\/archives\/last_dance_with_mary_jane_part_iii.phtml\">Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebunnyblog.com\/archives\/last_dance_with_mary_jane_part_iv.phtml\">Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bunny is one of the best writers on this here web (and maybe anywhere else, frankly) &#8230; and I have been living her multi-chaptered story about being in 42nd Street in high school. Seriously. This woman is so good I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62538,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions\/62538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}