{"id":19877,"date":"2019-03-16T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19877"},"modified":"2019-03-16T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T13:06:13","slug":"novelist-rebecca-makkai-on-the-great-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/16\/novelist-rebecca-makkai-on-the-great-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist Rebecca Makkai on The Great Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"background-color:initial;text-align:center;color:var(--color-neutral-600);\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1995%2C$x_5%2C$y_74\/t_crop_custom\/w_375\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/e7fa4d35d3c1b0bb5e05ef0fe56328c2096a1ad9\" alt=\"Rebecca Makkai: &quot;As an author I found myself very uncomfortably in the role of god in this book.&quot;\" width=\"505\" height=\"284\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"_2Li3P\">Rebecca Makkai: &#8220;As an author I found myself very uncomfortably in the role of god in this book.&#8221;<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span class=\"_30ROC\">CREDIT:<\/span>AGENCE OPALE \/ ALAMY STOCK PHOTO<\/cite><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rebecca Makkai was only a child when the AIDS crisis hit her hometown, Chicago, in the 1980s. It formed the backdrop to her childhood, in the way the Vietnam War had for an earlier generation in the United States. A cohort of artists, thinkers and leaders, of brothers, sons and lovers decimated.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/novelist-rebecca-makkai-on-the-great-believers-20190307-h1c3kw.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Rebecca Makkai was only a child when the AIDS crisis hit her hometown, Chicago, in the 1980s. It formed the backdrop to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}