{"id":4556,"date":"2011-12-15T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2011-12-15T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:45:14","slug":"the-prettiest-girls-in-euphoria-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2011\/12\/the-prettiest-girls-in-euphoria-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prettiest Girls in Euphoria, Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4664\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/18f\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/18f.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,459\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Prettiest Girls in Euphoria, Kansas\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/18f-196x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/18f.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4664\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2011\/12\/18f-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Prettiest Girls in Euphoria, Kansas\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/18f-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/12\/18f.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>by <strong>Bruce Kellner \u201955<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The impact of the past on the present dominates this novel, as Kellner explores<br \/>\nthe erratic, mysterious power of memory, simultaneously faithful and unreliable. \u201cMemory is our sixth sense,\u201d one character observes. \u201cIs the fading of the other ones as<br \/>\nwe grow older the reason why memories of the past grow stronger?\u201d The book is set on a midwestern farm<br \/>\nin the last century, where a boy is forced to come of age in<br \/>\na colorful family of dysfunctional women.<\/p>\n<p><em>ISBN-13: 978-1595691781. Published by Mondial, 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bruce Kellner \u201955 The impact of the past on the present dominates this novel, as Kellner explores the erratic, mysterious power of memory, simultaneously faithful and unreliable. \u201cMemory is our sixth sense,\u201d one character observes. \u201cIs the fading of the other ones as we grow older the reason why memories of the past grow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2011","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}