{"id":3202,"date":"2005-06-26T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:03","slug":"truth-is-stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3202","title":{"rendered":"Truth is Stranger Than Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know she&#8217;s not a YA writer, but I felt a pang of sympathy on reading her story anyway, even though her books make me kind of roll my eyes&#8230; &#8216;Tis a wicked risk to splash your real life onto the fiction page as an adult &#8211; so much better to stick to celebrating and reviling your teen aged peers when in all likelihood they&#8217;re all too involved with their 2.5 kids and their careers to run up against your old crushes or your bitter little diatribes against their long vanished selves&#8230; This week, well known Bay Area writer Terry McMillan&#8217;s number came up on the divorce court docket. Reported in this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/06\/26\/BAGTQDF4S01.DTL\">Chronicle <\/a>is the real end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&#038;isbn=0451192001\">How Stella Got Her Groove Back<\/a> &#8212; looks like the truth is&#8230;she didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, her ex-husband is accusing her of being an &#8220;angry woman&#8230;&#8221; did he <i>not<\/i> see that bit in the movie version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=0671537458\"><i>Waiting to Exhale<\/a><\/i> when a cheating husband&#8217;s car is set on fire!? Um, hello? Consider the source?<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully another blockbuster will be aspirin for the ache; a new novel for McMillan is due out in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know she&#8217;s not a YA writer, but I felt a pang of sympathy on reading her story anyway, even though her books make&#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":[10],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","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=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}