{"id":6029,"date":"2007-02-20T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2010-07-16T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:45:56","slug":"essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6029","title":{"rendered":"Essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Essential <\/b><br \/>\nby Beverly Rollwagen<br \/>\nfrom <i>She Just Wants<\/i>. ? Nodin Press.<\/p>\n<p>She just wants to keep her essential<br \/>\nsorrow. Everyone wants her to<br \/>\nbe happy all the time, but she doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nwant that for them. There is value in<br \/>\nthe thread of sadness in each person.<br \/>\nThe sobbing child on an airplane, the<br \/>\nunhappy woman waiting by the phone,<br \/>\na man staring out the window past his<br \/>\nwife. A violin plays through all of them,<br \/>\none long note held at the beginning and<br \/>\nthe end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essential by Beverly Rollwagen from She Just Wants. ? Nodin Press. She just wants to keep her essential sorrow. Everyone wants her to be happy all the time, but she doesn&#8217;t want that for them. There is value in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6029\">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":[9],"tags":[160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029"}],"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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21642,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions\/21642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}