{"id":9177,"date":"2017-03-24T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:15:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:15:48","slug":"the-nearness-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/the-nearness-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nearness of You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/03\/NearnessYou.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9179\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/03\/NearnessYou.jpg\" alt=\"NearnessYou\" width=\"252\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a>A shocking confession, fear of the unseen, and a classic twist lands three parents in a whirlwind of emotions that will impact each of their lives forever.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when her husband of fifteen years admits his yearning for a child. But Suzette fears passing along the genes that landed her mother in a mental institution; what about a baby via surrogate? Suzette soon doubts whether she\u2019s made the right decision. Dorothy Muscarello is chosen to help complete this family; Dorrie sees her ticket to her future in surrogacy (and the money that comes with it). This situation forces all three\u2014Dorrie, Suzette, and Hyland\u2014to face a devastating uncertainty that will reverberate throughout their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully shifting between perspectives, <em>The Nearness of You<\/em> deftly explores the connections we form, the families we create, and the love we hold most dear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check it out and others in the Popular Reading Collection <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shocking confession, fear of the unseen, and a classic twist lands three parents in a whirlwind of emotions that will impact each of their lives forever. Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when her husband of fifteen years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/the-nearness-of-you\/\">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-9177","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\/9177","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=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions\/9180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}