{"id":7415,"date":"2015-09-16T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7415"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:45:46","slug":"thought-provoking-drama-on-the-catholic-church-a-history-of-loneliness-by-john-boyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/thought-provoking-drama-on-the-catholic-church-a-history-of-loneliness-by-john-boyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Drama Read on the Catholic Church: &#8220;A History of Loneliness,&#8221; by John Boyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/09\/HistoryLoneliness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7418\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/09\/HistoryLoneliness.jpg\" alt=\"HistoryLoneliness\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>From the author of <em>The Boy in the Striped Pajamas<\/em> comes another emotional and evocative novel. <em>A History of Loneliness <\/em>tells the story of Father Odran Yates, a man who turned to the Catholic Church after a life-changing family tragedy. He\u2019s been the chaplain of an Irish boys\u2019 school for over 30 years. For a long time, Yates has been perfectly content with his rather lonely life; firm in his faith, a diligent-albeit \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d-worker, and an overall respected man. That all changes with the controversy surrounding the church during the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p><em>A History of Loneliness<\/em> depicts the downfall of both the church and one of its most avid, though average, representatives from \u201cgood guy\u201d to pariah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check it out today in Collins\u2019 Popular Collection.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes another emotional and evocative novel. A History of Loneliness tells the story of Father Odran Yates, a man who turned to the Catholic Church after a life-changing family tragedy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/thought-provoking-drama-on-the-catholic-church-a-history-of-loneliness-by-john-boyne\/\">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-7415","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\/7415","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=7415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7421,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions\/7421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}