{"id":2647,"date":"2007-02-06T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:05","slug":"life-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Life in Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short, sweet linked story collection, Cynthia Rylant&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&#038;isbn=9780590907170\" target=\"_blank\">The Van Gogh Cafe<\/a> is a magical book about a magical little place. Like a neighborhood pub, this theater-turned-coffee shop is full of magical<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images_us.seekbooks.com.au\/0152008438.gif\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/> potentiality. It&#8217;s where everybody in town goes, and where everybody is met with a smile from the ceramic hen next to the cash register, and the sign that says &#8216;You&#8217;d Be So Nice To Come Home To.&#8217; They&#8217;re also met by ten-year-old Clara, and her father, great coffee and once in a lifetime, lemon pie.<\/p>\n<p>A place that is somehow able to fulfill wishes you didn&#8217;t even know you have, the Van Gogh Cafe in Flowers, Kansas is a special place that lets writers write their best stories and  poetry, provides just enough magic muffins for small children, and lets possums reunite old friends and lovers. It&#8217;s like walking into a Van Gogh painting &#8212; simply magical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short, sweet linked story collection, Cynthia Rylant&#8217;s The Van Gogh Cafe is a magical book about a magical little place. Like a neighborhood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,63,5,26],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-girls-fiction","tag-magical-realism","tag-reviews","tag-short-story-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3893,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}