{"id":5424,"date":"2020-11-05T18:39:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T02:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2022-02-09T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T01:58:15","slug":"lily-chapter-20-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/lily-chapter-20-audiobook\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 20 &#8211; A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><i style=\"color: #333333;\">L\u00a0<\/i><i>I L Y<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><i style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;But how could one moment of seeing your baby be enough? The moment is over so soon, and then the baby is gone for the rest of your life.&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>&#8211; Annie Shea<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/95021839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See TRAILER for the novel, A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">It&#8217;s 1963 and teen mums with babies born &#8216;out of wedlock&#8217; are separated from their newborns at birth. In this chapter from A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE, a young teen gives birth to a baby girl and the next day, desperately needs to see her newborn, before the adoptive parents come to claim her. At the nursery, Annie is distracted by a<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0young couple who has come to take their adoptive baby home. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/16703072\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/a43aa9\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><em>A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE<\/em> <\/span>is my first novel, the fictionalized story of an enormous family of Catholics in Pasadena, in 1963. Here are some early\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/reviews-for-a-theory-of-expanded-love\/\">reviews of this popular book<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/fiction-2\/kennedy-girl-a-new-novel-by-caitlin-hicks\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">KENNEDY GIRL<\/span><\/a> takes place five years later, 1968, in Southern California during the turmoil of the late Sixties and takes a journey up the coast of California to Canada during the Vietnam War. The novel is on its own journey towards being published.<\/p>\n<p>Individually, we are a drop, together, an ocean&#8221; &#8211; Ryunsuke Satoro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u00a0I L Y &#8220;But how could one moment of seeing your baby be enough? The moment is over so soon, and then the baby is gone for the rest of your life.&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; Annie Shea See TRAILER for the novel, A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE It&#8217;s 1963 and teen mums with babies born &#8216;out of wedlock&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,153,155],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pondering-the-brilliance-of-existence","category-podcasts","category-somekinda-woman-podcast","tag-a-theory-of-expanded-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}