{"id":1298,"date":"2009-05-10T22:11:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T05:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2009-05-10T22:11:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T05:11:29","slug":"the-writing-room-writing-about-your-mother-words-of-caution-from-lori-gottlieb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/the-writing-room-writing-about-your-mother-words-of-caution-from-lori-gottlieb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Room: Writing About Your Mother? &#8212; Words of Caution from Lori Gottlieb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Planning to write about your mother? You might reconsider after reading Lori Gottlieb&#8217;s essay in\u00a0today&#8217;s New York Times Book Review. Lori has talked to a number of women who have written about their mothers &#8212; and believe me there\u00a0are <em>consequences<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe you&#8217;re writing about yourself as a mother. If that&#8217;s the case don&#8217;t miss the reviews out this week of Ayelet Waldman&#8217;s new book, the confessional <em>Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace<\/em> (Doubleday, $24.95).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning to write about your mother? You might reconsider after reading Lori Gottlieb&#8217;s essay in today&#8217;s New York Times. Or are you a mother writing about your kids . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,50,52],"tags":[205,206,207,208],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-openers","category-on-writing-reading","category-the-writing-room","tag-ayelet-waldman","tag-bad-mother","tag-lori-gottlieb","tag-new-york-times-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}