{"id":9546,"date":"2017-09-15T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9546"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:29:42","slug":"new-beginnings-new-ends-and-the-journey-between-sycamore-by-bryn-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/new-beginnings-new-ends-and-the-journey-between-sycamore-by-bryn-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings, New Ends, and the Journey Between: &#8220;Sycamore&#8221; by Bryn Chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/09\/sycamore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9548\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/09\/sycamore.jpg\" alt=\"sycamore\" width=\"249\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a>What could have easily been a murder mystery, focused on the newly discovered remains of a long-missing teenager, instead flourishes into a novel about new beginnings, sad endings, and what it means to be a community, a family and, most importantly, what it is to be human.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor pulls a bait and switch with the disappearance and later discovery of the missing girl\u2019s remains; readers could easily be convinced that this novel will be about how a community is ripped apart in the aftermath of such a tragedy.\u00a0 Chancellor presents a different picture, one wherein the disappearance of Jess Winters is, at the surface, the one common thread between all the members of the community.<\/p>\n<p>This title is in the Popular Reading Collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could have easily been a murder mystery, focused on the newly discovered remains of a long-missing teenager, instead flourishes into a novel about new beginnings, sad endings, and what it means to be a community, a family and, most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/new-beginnings-new-ends-and-the-journey-between-sycamore-by-bryn-chancellor\/\">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-9546","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\/9546","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=9546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions\/9549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}