{"id":2705,"date":"2018-12-03T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2018-12-03T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:08:35","slug":"lesson-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/?p=2705","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had told my kids I would write the story of my life for them. I even set up a notebook to put the memories in. I titled it &#8220;This is Me&#8221;. But at 78 I have so many memories and due to a small stroke many years ago, there are some foggy areas of the past. I am hoping with the guidance of this course I will be able to give my children some idea of the world I grew up in and how it shaped me. There are so many stories it&#8217;s hard to know what and where to put them.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt I&#8217;ll ever attempt to publish any of these stories, but they do open up avenues for the fiction I write and maybe I&#8217;ll publish one of those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had told my kids I would write the story of my life for them. I even set up a notebook to put the memories in. I titled it &#8220;This is Me&#8221;. But at 78 I have so many memories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/?p=2705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lesson-1","tag-lesson-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}