{"id":3675,"date":"2015-04-30T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2015-05-02T06:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T13:40:01","slug":"witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2015\/04\/witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent some time talking with people who were there. It&#8217;s not easy. I myself, even after I wrote this book, have trouble reading it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to go back to the scene of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>I was talking with an old friend. She was there. She witnessed a lot of it.<\/p>\n<p>True, she didn&#8217;t know all of the story. She had her own scenes she was dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>So when I said somethign she said, &#8220;Wait, what? I don&#8217;t think I knew about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I had to explain.<\/p>\n<p>Quickly. About people we knew differently.<\/p>\n<p>And there it is. The part two. Is it my sequel? Or the sequel of all of us?<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t end so pretty. How can I write an open-ended sequel? There should be some sense of ending.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the trouble with true stories. They don&#8217;t end. They just kind of rest.<\/p>\n<p>[this is cross-posted <a href=\"https:\/\/therussianamericanschooloftomorrow.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/30\/witness\/\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent some time talking with people who were there. It&#8217;s not easy. I myself, even after I wrote this book, have trouble reading it. I don&#8217;t want to go back to the scene of the accident. I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2015\/04\/witness\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}