{"id":2941,"date":"2014-10-22T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T06:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/?page_id=2941"},"modified":"2018-01-07T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T05:14:00","slug":"dear-ruth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/books\/dear-ruth\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Ruth &#8211; free short story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2946\" src=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DearRuthCover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Dear Ruth by Bronwyn Parry\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DearRuthCover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DearRuthCover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DearRuthCover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DearRuthCover.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nOriginally written for the Australian <em>Woman&#8217;s Day<\/em> magazine,\u00a0<em>Dear Ruth<\/em> is a very short story of just 1500 words set in Dungirri &#8211; and described by Jess from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/nevendbookshelf.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Never Ending Bookshelf<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>as &#8216;A lovely little short story that hits all the right places.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the perfect accompaniment for a cup of tea and an afternoon snack &#8211; and it&#8217;s free, and available from all the major online bookshops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;index=digital-text&amp;keywords=Bronwyn%20Parry%20Dear%20Ruth&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=bronparr-20&amp;linkId=AUYAEJA74YQL4IV7\" target=\"_blank\">Download from Amazon.com<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=bronparr-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/dear-ruth\" target=\"_blank\">Download from Kobo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Add\u00a0<em>Dear Ruth<\/em> to your Goodreads shelves:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"border: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/isbn\/0733632297\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/images\/atmb_add_book-70x25.png\" alt=\"Dear Ruth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- the identifier in the following script tag can be a GR book id or an isbn --><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/add_to_books_widget_frame\/0733632297?atmb_widget%5Bbutton%5D=atmb_widget_1.png\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally written for the Australian Woman&#8217;s Day magazine,\u00a0Dear Ruth is a very short story of just 1500 words set in Dungirri &#8211; and described by Jess from\u00a0The Never Ending Bookshelf\u00a0as &#8216;A lovely little short story that hits all the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/books\/dear-ruth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":146,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2941","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2941\/revisions\/2969"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}