{"id":11074,"date":"2019-03-25T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=11074"},"modified":"2019-03-25T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T15:45:26","slug":"over-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/over-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"A story that will transport you over the rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/03\/FindingDorothy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11076\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/03\/FindingDorothy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a>Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband\u2019s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank\u2019s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book\u2014because she\u2019s the only one left who knows its secrets.<\/p>\n<p>But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of \u201cOver the Rainbow,\u201d Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragette\u2019s daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank. Judy reminds Maud of a young\u00a0girl she cared for and tried to help in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got her happy ending. With the young actress under pressure from the studio as well as her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her\u2014the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband\u2019s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank\u2019s passing, Maud is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/over-the-rainbow\/\">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-11074","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\/11074","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=11074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11077,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions\/11077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}