{"id":643,"date":"2009-11-22T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2009-11-22T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T16:56:12","slug":"once-you-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/643","title":{"rendered":"Once You Go Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/once-you-go-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-642\" title=\"once you go back\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/once-you-go-back.jpg?w=103\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/once-you-go-back.jpg 447w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/once-you-go-back-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px\" \/><\/a>Martin, Douglas  A.\u00a0 <em>Once You Go Back<\/em>.\u00a0 2009. 208 p. Seven Stories, $16.95. (978-1-58322-878-4). Gr. 10+.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the opening  sentence, \u201cPretend you are my sister,\u201d Martin\u2019s narrator invites the reader to  participate in an intimate journey of a young boy as he travels through  childhood and adolescence within a strained family structure.\u00a0 Both the boy and sister experience their  individual sexual awakenings as they struggle within a broken home environment  marked by violence\u2014the estrangement from their father, the abusive stepfather  who replaces him, and their mother overwhelmed by life.\u00a0 Impressionistic and sparse language create a  portrait of a young boy growing up gay in a Southern family.\u00a0 <em>\u2013Victor Schill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin, Douglas A.\u00a0 Once You Go Back.\u00a0 2009. 208 p. Seven Stories, $16.95. (978-1-58322-878-4). Gr. 10+. With the opening sentence, \u201cPretend you are my sister,\u201d Martin\u2019s narrator invites the reader to participate in an intimate journey of a young boy as he travels through childhood and adolescence within a strained family structure.\u00a0 Both the boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,188],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-douglas-a-martin","tag-once-you-go-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}