{"id":3338,"date":"2018-07-26T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:51:01","slug":"3338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=3338","title":{"rendered":"The Great Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?attachment_id=3339\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3339 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3753-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3753-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3753-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3753-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3753-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3753.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>For a little more than a year I have been working on my book project &#8211; a history of the AIDS epidemic in Boston. I came across an interview in June with author Rebecca Makkai. Rebecca is a fiction writer who was about to release her third book, The Great Believers. The book focuses on Chicago in the mid 1980&#8217;s and Paris is 2015. There is a central theme that focuses on the AIDS crisis.<\/p>\n<p>It is very clear through interviews and reading the book that Rebecca did a great deal of research. Much like my research she has interviewed many people since she found little existed about Chicago and the early days of the AIDS crisis.<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate to connect with Rebecca and share what I was working on. Not only was able to go to hear her read and speak about her book, but I was also able to meet up with her after and chat more about our similar experiences.<\/p>\n<p>We have a lot in common &#8211; both straight, white married moms of two kids who live in big cities. Rebecca was a Montessori teacher before her writing career took off and I work in a Montessori school.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great conversation, her book was incredible and I am looking forward to keeping in touch with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a little more than a year I have been working on my book project &#8211; a history of the AIDS epidemic in Boston. I came across an interview in June with author Rebecca Makkai. Rebecca is a fiction writer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=3338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}