{"id":108,"date":"2008-12-18T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2008\/12\/18\/article-on-aarp-the-estrangement-by-jamaica-kincaid\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:24:02","slug":"article-on-aarp-the-estrangement-by-jamaica-kincaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2008\/12\/18\/article-on-aarp-the-estrangement-by-jamaica-kincaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Article on AARP: &#8220;The Estrangement&#8221; by Jamaica Kincaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/relationships\/family\/info-04-2008\/the_estrangement.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Article by Jamaica Kincaid on her estrangement from her mother.\">&quot;The Estrangement&quot; by Jamaica Kincaid<\/a>, May\/June 2008<br \/>An article on a mother\/daughter estrangement that was not resolved and for which the author has no regrets.<br \/>From the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blockquote\" style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">&quot;Three years before my mother died, I decided not to speak to her again. And why? During a conversation over the telephone, she had once again let me know that my accomplishments\u2014becoming a responsible and independent woman\u2014did not amount to very much, . . . &quot;<\/div>\n<p>As the link is an AARP link, after several months or perhaps a year, the link probably will end up going nowhere but it should be good for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The Estrangement&quot; by Jamaica Kincaid, May\/June 2008An article on a mother\/daughter estrangement that was not resolved and for which the author has no regrets.From the first paragraph: &quot;Three years before my mother died, I decided not to speak to her again. And why? During a conversation over the telephone, she had once again let me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[62,190,155,54,41,153,65],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-finds","category-stories-of-estrangement","tag-alienation","tag-conflict","tag-daughter","tag-estrangement","tag-family","tag-mother","tag-rift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}