{"id":10009,"date":"2018-03-02T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=10009"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:17:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:17:04","slug":"the-life-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/the-life-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"The life in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/03\/GirlsinthePicture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10026\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/03\/GirlsinthePicture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s 1914.\u00a0 Twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion left her second husband in order to go to Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently and to make a career of being an artist. However, \u201cflickers\u201d \u2013silent moving pictures- are the new enthralling medium of art. Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this new medium. Frances also makes the acquaintance of America\u2019s Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, and they hit it off instantly. Their success is astronomical, but it comes at a price. They both struggle with their personal lives and the desire to share it with someone.<\/p>\n<p>Look for this book in the Popular Reading Collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 1914.\u00a0 Twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion left her second husband in order to go to Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently and to make a career of being an artist. However, \u201cflickers\u201d \u2013silent moving pictures- are the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/the-life-in-los-angeles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions\/10027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}