{"id":5574,"date":"2017-02-11T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2017-02-11T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T13:46:47","slug":"a-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5574","title":{"rendered":"A new novel &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; by Jeri Massi, a <a href=\"http:\/\/jeriwho.net\/lillypad2\/?p=17746\" target=\"_blank\">second installment<\/a> of her <i>Secret Radio<\/i> series.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a story that is often comic and often stark with the realities of coming to terms with life outside of her religion\u2019s insularity and secrecy, Grace encounters kind friends everywhere: a courteous and warm hearted rationalist who makes her his protege, a former actress now living in obscurity who rescues her from danger, an African American Christian who gently reveals to her the decades of racism in Fundamentalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read it, and tend to be wary of instruction\/message novels (even John Steinbeck can get under my skin), but Jeri is a good writer, a real hero of the fight against clergy abuse, and clear-headed about the evils of fundamentalism, so go take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; by Jeri Massi, a second installment of her Secret Radio series. In a story that is often comic and often stark with the realities of coming to terms with life outside of her religion\u2019s insularity and secrecy, Grace encounters &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5576,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}