{"id":192,"date":"2013-03-30T02:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T05:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/?p=192"},"modified":"2014-03-05T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T20:35:27","slug":"why-i-wrote-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2013\/03\/why-i-wrote-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Wrote &#8220;The Lullaby Illusion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why I wrote the book. Full post exclusively, this week, on the new <a title=\"Why I wrote the book - full post on Google+. Anyone can read it, and if you have any Google ID at all, you're already a Google+ member!\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114577484271770648382\/posts\/JL2GAfdSvK1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google+ Page<\/strong> for <em><strong>The Lullaby Illusion.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sampler&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It originated as I struggled in my search for answers, my attempt to fit together pieces of a life shattered by the coup in Cyprus on 15 July 1974, followed five days later by the Turkish invasion on 20 July 1974. Thousands of lives were drastically changed forever by the atrocities, including foreigners who happened to live there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Of which I was one.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For years following the war, I marveled, bewildered, at how a tranquil place &#8211; which seemed like paradise &#8211; could simply go away, rendered a living hell in the space of a few days&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Why I wrote &quot;The Lullaby Illusion&quot; - Susan Joyce explains on Google+\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114577484271770648382\/posts\/JL2GAfdSvK1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also please visit my <a title=\"Susan Joyce's personal Google+ - Join me!\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/118218630325233307553\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">personal Google+<\/a> Profile and Public post Stream for all my other interests and posts, and to share with me personally!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I wrote the book. Full post exclusively, this week, on the new Google+ Page for The Lullaby Illusion. A sampler&#8230; It originated as I struggled in my search for answers, my attempt to fit together pieces of a life shattered by the coup in Cyprus on 15 July 1974, followed five days later by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2013\/03\/why-i-wrote-the-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Wrote &#8220;The Lullaby Illusion&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,22,27],"tags":[41,63,71],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyprus","category-lullaby-illusion","category-social-media","category-war","tag-cyprus-invasion","tag-social-networking","tag-war-2"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}