{"id":22477,"date":"2026-08-27T03:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/the-things-we-never-say\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T03:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:44:56","slug":"the-things-we-never-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/the-things-we-never-say\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things We Never Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout \u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As he steered the sailboat back to his wharf, it came to him how he had once, when he was a kid, said to his father, &quot;I&#039;m going to have a boat one day,&quot; and his father had smiled and said, &quot;No, Artie, you&#039;re not ever going to have a boat.&quot; This did not hurt Artie to remember.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather melancholic novel. Older teacher Artie, goes through things in a Strout-ian way. Some rather dramatic twists, turns &amp; happenings. Sadder than I expected, perhaps a little crammed with ideas, but the writing goes straight in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout \u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da; As he steered the sailboat back to his wharf, it came to him how he had once, when he was a kid, said to his father, &quot;I&#039;m going to have a boat one day,&quot; and his father had smiled and said, &quot;No, Artie, you&#039;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[898],"tags":[1448,1599],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-22477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-book","7":"tag-elizabeth-strout","8":"tag-1599","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-article","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5Qx","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22477"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}