{"id":96,"date":"2010-02-26T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/02\/reflections-on-penelope-ayers.html"},"modified":"2010-02-26T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:42:00","slug":"reflections-on-penelope-ayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/02\/reflections-on-penelope-ayers.html","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Penelope Ayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\">My old friend Stefan Lanfer has a new review and reflection on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Penelope-Ayers-Amy-Julia-Becker\/dp\/143636311X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1226356562&amp;sr=8-1\">Penelope Ayers<\/a>. On his blog, <a href=\"dadtoday.blogspot.com\">dadtoday<\/a>, he discusses parents and children, dying and new life in a new post called <a href=\"http:\/\/dadtoday.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/storytime.html\">Storytime<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/dadtoday.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/storytime.html\" class=\"tweet-url web\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\">An excerpt: <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 20px\">Reading it, I was struck that this particular phase of life is not so unlike that of becoming a parent in some important ways &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>There is no real preparing for it,<br \/>No knowing quite what it will be like<br \/>or feel like<br \/>or whether you&#8217;ll really be able to figure it out<br \/>or be any good at it<br \/>until you&#8217;re in it.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend Stefan Lanfer has a new review and reflection on Penelope Ayers. 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