{"id":34,"date":"2005-04-21T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/archives\/34"},"modified":"2006-07-26T06:52:52","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T13:52:52","slug":"their-perpetual-light-shines-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Their Perpetual Light Shines on Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Seybold&#8217;s novel <em>The Lovely Bones<\/em> is narrated by the spirit of a girl who has been murdered\u00c2\u00a0and who watches her family and her friends as their lives unfold without her. This passage captures the essence of the idea that informs the novel I am working on, called <em>Perpetual Light<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ruth . . . wanted everyone to believe what she knew: that the dead truly talk to us, that in the air between the living, spirits bob and weave and laugh with us. They are the oxygen we breathe.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Seybold&#8217;s novel The Lovely Bones is narrated by the spirit of a girl who has been murdered\u00c2\u00a0and who watches her family and her friends as their lives unfold without her. This passage captures the essence of the idea that informs the novel I am working on, called Perpetual Light: Ruth . . . wanted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Their Perpetual Light Shines on Us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}