{"id":2,"date":"2012-04-20T22:54:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T03:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-07-10T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T02:45:13","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Leaves of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaves of Grace is simply a collection of brief essays in which I air my thoughts about all kinds of things, mostly the kinds of things that are on my mind but aren&#8217;t very good fodder for a conversation. These posts aren&#8217;t intended to be didactic, but perhaps they will give you a glimpse of the world through my eyes, much as Scout Finch caught a glimpse of her neighborhood through Boo Radley&#8217;s eyes when she stood on his front porch.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the posts date back to 2002, when they appeared on the Eastgate Ministries website (Thank you, Tim and Sherri Sawtelle!)\u00a0To peruse the essays for a particular year, just select that year in the Categories drop-down menu.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a writer, and my observations on writing and the writing life are under the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/?cat=15\">Words<\/a>\u00a0menu option. They&#8217;re also listed in the yearly categories in which they were written.<\/p>\n<p>Grace to you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaves of Grace is simply a collection of brief essays in which I air my thoughts about all kinds of things, mostly the kinds of things that are on my mind but aren&#8217;t very good fodder for a conversation. These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8Mo02-2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127,"url":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/?page_id=127","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":0},"title":"Stories","author":"lsimonds","date":"May 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In contrast to the Leaves of Grace essays, these are short fiction pieces from past and present. \"Vieux Carr\u00e9\" was\u00a0originally published in Apocalpyse, the literary journal of Northern Illinois University.\u00a0 The story is a brief portrait of\u00a0New Orleans' French Quarter. \"Dadaw Stories\" came from the experiences of my maternal grandfather,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissakaysimonds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}