{"id":43,"date":"2007-04-09T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/04\/09\/more-on-jennie\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T15:43:32","slug":"more-on-jennie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/04\/09\/more-on-jennie\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Jennie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the book over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to say that I was disappointed at the resolution but captivated nonetheless.\u00c2\u00a0 Jennie might have been a ghost or a figment of Eben&#8217;s imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help but wondering if she ever existed outside the confines of his minds.\u00c2\u00a0 Jennie seemed to age like children in soap operas.\u00c2\u00a0 That is she grew up much faster than anyone else.\u00c2\u00a0 She gets older at an exponentially faster pace than Eben does.\u00c2\u00a0 She makes the comment several times that he must wait for her to grow up.\u00c2\u00a0 My son says the same thing.\u00c2\u00a0 He says that one day he will be older than me and then he&#8217;ll be allowed to tell me what to do.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ll be the boss then Mom,&#8221; he says.\u00c2\u00a0 You can&#8217;t explain to a child that we all get older at the same rate and that he will never be older than me.\u00c2\u00a0 Jennie&#8217;s eternal youthfulness in the book seems this way too.\u00c2\u00a0 She always believes that Eben will just &#8220;catch up with her.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure where I&#8217;m going with all this.\u00c2\u00a0 It needs to sink in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the book over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to say that I was disappointed at the resolution but captivated nonetheless.\u00c2\u00a0 Jennie might have been a ghost or a figment of Eben&#8217;s imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help but wondering if she ever existed outside the confines of his minds.\u00c2\u00a0 Jennie seemed to age like children in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}