{"id":91640,"date":"2013-10-18T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=91640"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:01:40","slug":"bestselling-author-monica-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/18\/bestselling-author-monica-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling Author Monica Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video from Oct. 28: Monica Wood, bestselling author of \u2018When We Were the Kennedys&#8217; is no longer available.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_69247\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69247\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69247 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/MonicaWood-H-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Writer Monica Wood. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/MonicaWood-H-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/MonicaWood-H.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-69247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writer Monica Wood.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monica Wood, author of a popular memoir about growing up in a small Maine town in the early 1960s, reads from and discusses\u00a0<em>When We Were the Kennedys<\/em>\u00a0 at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in Olin Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required \u2014 please visit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/monicawoodbates.eventbrite.com\/\">monicawoodbates.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/strong>. The event is sponsored by the Office of the President with support from the Dean of the Faculty\u2019s and Dean of Students\u2019 offices. For more information, please call 207-786-6067.<\/p>\n<p><em>When We Were the Kennedys<\/em>\u00a0(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) is the story of how a family, a town and then a nation mourn and find the strength to move on. Living in Mexico, Maine, in 1963, the Wood family is much like its close neighbors, Catholics and immigrants dependent on the fathers\u2019 wages from the Oxford Paper Company.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/16\/monica-wood-bestselling-author-of-when-we-were-the-kennedys-to-speak-at-bates\/\">Keep reading at Bates News.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video from Oct. 28: Monica Wood, bestselling author of \u2018When We Were&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":69247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,12193],"tags":[10173,6046],"class_list":["post-91640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-livestream","tag-livestream","tag-monica-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97425,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91640\/revisions\/97425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}