{"id":22961,"date":"2015-09-19T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T18:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=22961"},"modified":"2015-09-19T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T18:52:19","slug":"wrestling-with-god-on-the-shores-of-lake-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wrestling-with-god-on-the-shores-of-lake-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling With God on the Shores of Lake Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22965\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/09\/19\/wrestling-with-god-on-the-shores-of-lake-michigan\/\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/09\/19\/wrestling-with-god-on-the-shores-of-lake-michigan\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22965 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1983-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"A beach along Lake Michigan at sunset. Photo by Barbara Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beach on Lake Michigan at sunset. <em>Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a long time now, I&#8217;ve been dreaming of having a chance to read from &#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; in Michigan &#8212; on the shores of Lake Michigan &#8212; where I grew up and where some of the events in my book took place. A dozen or so lovely people, including relatives, showed up at the Pentwater <!--more-->Township Library last Saturday to hear me read. The fun part was that they too\u00a0knew and loved the little beach on Lake Michigan that&#8217;s mentioned early on in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the (unedited) video I made with my trusty point-and-shoot in a library not far from the shores of Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Wrestling With God on the Shores of Lake Michigan\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LsXmrYefOk8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/09\/19\/wrestling-with-god-on-the-shores-of-lake-michigan\/\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/09\/19\/wrestling-with-god-on-the-shores-of-lake-michigan\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22965 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1983-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"A beach along Lake Michigan at sunset. Photo by Barbara Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At last a chance to read from &#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; at the Pentwater, Michigan library. My idea of a good time. <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2015\/09\/19\/wrestling-with-god-on-the-shores-of-lake-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,50],"tags":[1423,34,383,1554,214,82,504,1555,1556],"class_list":["post-22961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-on-writing-reading","tag-author-event","tag-dont-miss","tag-lake-michigan","tag-libraries","tag-michigan","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-pentwater","tag-video","tag-wresling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}