{"id":84,"date":"2013-12-04T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2013-12-11T20:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:16:37","slug":"excerpt2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/book\/excerpt2\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">Dear Byrd,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">What\u2019s your name now, I wonder. Not Blake, I hope, or Blair. Or Smitty. Please, not Smitty.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">I can guess what you\u2019re thinking: what mother would name her child Byrd?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">But I knew the name wouldn\u2019t follow you. Which is partly why I chose it\u2014I wanted a name no one else would ever call you. One thing about you that would be only mine.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">What I first loved about your father was his name. It was lyrical, something you might hear in a song or read in a book.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">Not that anyone would ever write a book about him. Or that he would ever read it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Byrd, What\u2019s your name now, I wonder. Not Blake, I hope, or Blair. Or Smitty. Please, not Smitty. I can guess what you\u2019re thinking: what mother would name her child Byrd? But I knew the name wouldn\u2019t follow you. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/book\/excerpt2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_book3.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/109"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimchurch.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}