{"id":262,"date":"2016-07-25T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2018-11-27T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:24:15","slug":"missing-coming-to-terms-with-a-borderline-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Missing: Coming to Terms with a Borderline Mother by Kathy Ewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/missing-website1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-265\" alt=\"missing website\" src=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/missing-website1-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/missing-website1-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/missing-website1-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/missing-website1-150x224.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/missing-website.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">In this engaging and thoughtful personal memoir, Kathy Ewing shows what it\u2019s like to be raised by someone variously sullen, pleasant, angry, demanding, manipulative, and engaging\u2014sometimes changing from one mood to the next in a single conversation. She writes of childhood memories, showing her mother\u2019s troubling behavior, which mystified her until she discovered a name for it, putting it in the context of borderline personality disorder. The diagnosis, the wrestling with her history, and the very writing of that history have provided, if not healing, at least comfort and acceptance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this engaging and thoughtful personal memoir, Kathy Ewing shows what it\u2019s like to be raised by someone variously sullen, pleasant, angry, demanding, manipulative, and engaging\u2014sometimes changing from one mood to the next in a single conversation. She writes of childhood memories, showing her mother\u2019s troubling behavior, which mystified her until she discovered a name for it, putting it in the context of borderline personality disorder. The diagnosis, the wrestling with her history, and the very writing of that history have provided, if not healing, at least comfort and acceptance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/missing-website1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}