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<\/a>And it’s hard to hold a candle\u00a0In the cold November rain \u00a0 — \u00a0Guns N’ Roses<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nWe’re on our way now- committed to\u00a0NaBloPoMo<\/a>*: the pledge\u00a0to post every day in\u00a0the month of November. \u00a0Needing the discipline of a public pledge, I’ve taken it on. \u00a0 November: the month when my second son and first daughter-in-law arrived on the planet, when I first saw Africa, when the hero of my youth died in Dallas;\u00a0 the month of Kristallnacht and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sherman’s burning of\u00a0Atlanta and the launch of Queen Elizabeth’s record-setting reign.\u00a0So much has happened in this month\u00a0that ends with\u00a0our beloved Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n There’s plenty to talk about: a Presidential election that’s precisely a year away, an unprecedented assault on women’s rights, faith, grief, the vagaries of our popular culture, families, grandparents, holidays, admired friends, books, music, movies and the world in general. \u00a0Oh, and the wonderful work of the women whom I’ve joined on this adventure. \u00a0You can find them all here<\/a>. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And it’s hard to hold a candle\u00a0In the cold November rain \u00a0 — \u00a0Guns N’ Roses We’re on our way now- committed to\u00a0NaBloPoMo*: the pledge\u00a0to post every day in\u00a0the month of November. \u00a0Needing the discipline of a public pledge, I’ve taken it on. \u00a0 November: the month when my second son and first daughter-in-law … Continue reading NaBloPoMo and the Cold November Rain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,3,2736,6,1917,9,51,52],"tags":[198,2374,3417,90,2271,3421,1921],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-aging","category-blogher-2","category-culture","category-nablopomo","category-politics","category-webtech","category-weblogs","tag-blogher","tag-culture-2","tag-family","tag-history","tag-memory","tag-nablopomo","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-Uy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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