{"id":1826,"date":"2013-05-28T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katrinakenison.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:05:34","slug":"on-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/on-telling-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"On telling the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1827\" alt=\"IMG_0358 - Version 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.katrinakenison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_0358-Version-2.jpg?resize=2369%2C1231\" width=\"2369\" height=\"1231\" \/>\u00a0<span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever done a Q&amp;A session with readers when the question hasn&#8217;t come up: \u00a0&#8220;How do your family and friends feel about being written about in your books?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer is, well, complicated.<\/p>\n<p>So when memoir writer and teacher Marion Roach Smith invited me to contribute to her new &#8220;Writing Lessons&#8221; series on her terrific site \u00a0<strong>The Memoir Project<\/strong>, I figured it was time for me to tackle the thorny subject of truth-telling head on. \u00a0This is my \u00a0first guest post, and I&#8217;m honored to be part of this smart, practical series devoted to the art and craft of memoir.<\/p>\n<p>So, please <a href=\"http:\/\/marionroach.com\/2013\/05\/how-to-tell-the-truth-when-writing-memoir-with-katrina-kenison\/\"><strong>click here<\/strong> <\/a>to read my essay, meet Marion, and leave a comment on her site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever done a Q&amp;A session with readers when the question hasn&#8217;t come up: \u00a0&#8220;How do your family and friends feel about being written about in your books?&#8221; The answer is, well, complicated. So when memoir writer and teacher Marion Roach Smith invited me to contribute to her new &#8220;Writing Lessons&#8221; series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-writing-and-reading","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/600x600.png?fit=600%2C600","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}