{"id":7584,"date":"2023-08-23T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T22:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=7584"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T22:53:29","slug":"america-in-1968-front-page-of-the-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/america-in-1968-front-page-of-the-pasadena-star-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam war: front page of The Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>January 7, 1968. Dear Diary, Today the Beatles\u2019 Magical Mystery Tour hit number 1 on the charts, a duck hunter accidentally shot a whooping crane already going extinct, and Bing LaBelle finally made it to the front page of the Pasadena Star News: Bing LaBelle (St. Francis Class of\u201966) home from Vietnam in a coffin<strong>.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>\u2013 Kennedy Girl, p 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ORANGE-red-flowers-2.webp\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7590\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ORANGE-red-flowers-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ORANGE-red-flowers-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ORANGE-red-flowers-2-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ORANGE-red-flowers-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ORANGE-red-flowers-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ORANGE-red-flowers-2-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ORANGE-red-flowers-2.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With KENNEDY GIRL, Caitlin Hicks draws us back to 1968 in America. \u00a0Deftly painting the era of sex, drugs and war in Vietnam, she introduces us to her hero Annie Shea, a teenager on her right of passage to adulthood.\u00a0 Annie chooses to be a Kennedy Girl, a supporter of Robert Kennedy as he campaigns for the presidency. With Kennedy\u2019s idealistic campaign dreams as her guide, she faces the childhood truths learned from her large and traditional Catholic family and their middle America community.<\/p>\n<h4>When reality collides with youthful innocence<\/h4>\n<p>We witness with fingers crossed as she questions religious morality and community mores, even the laws of the land. We cheer as she chooses to act, attempting to right the social and legal wrongs in her way. We weep when reality collides with youthful innocence.<\/p>\n<p>With KENNEDY GIRL, we remember the joys of youthful discovery and the contradictory expectations modern society demands of each of us as we reach adulthood.<\/p>\n<h4>I read this tale in just two days.\u00a0 It\u2019s that kind of book!<\/h4>\n<p>I highly recommend you add KENNEDY GIRL, to your reading list.\u00a0 &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.janecallen.ca\/novel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jane Callen, Vancouver author\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJanuary 7, 1968. Dear Diary, Today the Beatles\u2019 Magical Mystery Tour hit number 1 on the charts, a duck hunter accidentally shot a whooping crane already going extinct, and Bing LaBelle finally made it to the front page of the Pasadena Star News: Bing LaBelle (St. Francis Class of\u201966) home from Vietnam in a coffin.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pondering-the-brilliance-of-existence","category-fiction","category-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584","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=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}