{"id":1605,"date":"2024-09-04T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2024-09-04T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:31:50","slug":"2024-september-book-club-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/2024\/09\/04\/2024-september-book-club-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 September Book Club Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">WN Book Group\nMeets 3rd Sunday, Sept 15, 2 pm\nPenny Eccleston's home\n5635 SE Baylor Pl.\n\nJoin us for a discussion of The Women (who were nurses in wartime Vietnam):\nThe Women by Kristin Hannah\n\nWomen can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances\n\u201cFrankie\u201d McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the\nsun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by\nher conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the\nright thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly\ndares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother\nships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and\nfollows his path.\n\nAs green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight,\nFrankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day\nis a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep\nand can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets\u2015and becomes one\nof\u2015the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.\n\nBut war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The\nreal battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to\nangry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.\n\nThe Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light\non all women who put themselves in harm\u2019s way and whose sacrifice and\ncommitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel\nabout deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly\ndrawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under\nfire will come to define an era.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WN Book Group Meets 3rd Sunday, Sept 15, 2 pm Penny Eccleston&#8217;s home 5635 SE Baylor Pl. Join us for a discussion of The Women (who were nurses in wartime Vietnam): The Women by Kristin Hannah Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances \u201cFrankie\u201d McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartlesvillewomensnetwork.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}