{"id":30323,"date":"2015-09-02T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30323"},"modified":"2015-09-02T18:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:30:28","slug":"recommended-reading-the-children-of-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/recommended-reading-the-children-of-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading: The Children of Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have all kinds of work to do, which means I am, instead, procrastinating by catching up on August issues of the New Yorker. (I will read yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/to-stop-procrastinating-start-by-understanding-whats-really-going-on-1441043167\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal story on procrastination tomorrow<\/a>. I swear!)<\/p>\n<p>The August 3 New Yorker has a beautifully written, happy\/sad story by Larissa MacFarquhar about Sue and Hector Badeau, a couple who adopted 20 hard-to-place children. Put off something you need to do and read this right now!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click here to read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/08\/03\/the-children-of-strangers\" target=\"_blank\">THE CHILDREN OF STRANGERS<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have all kinds of work to do, which means I am, instead, procrastinating by catching up on August issues of the New Yorker. (I will read yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal story on procrastination tomorrow. I swear!) The August 3 New Yorker has a beautifully written, happy\/sad story by Larissa MacFarquhar about Sue and Hector&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/recommended-reading-the-children-of-strangers\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,150],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-in-the-news","7":"category-magazines","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30324,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30323\/revisions\/30324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}