{"id":89,"date":"2017-03-03T23:21:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-03-03T23:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T23:21:03","slug":"girl-in-pieces-by-kathleen-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/2017\/03\/03\/girl-in-pieces-by-kathleen-glasgow\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/files\/2017\/03\/pieces.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-90\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/files\/2017\/03\/pieces.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a>Charlie has been let down by all of the adults in her life starting with her father who kills himself to her mother who grieves so selfishly that she starts to abuse Charlie.\u00a0 Forced to live on the streets and struggle to find shelter in the freezing cold Minnesota winters, Charlie starts cutting herself to release her emotions.\u00a0 Obviously this creates circumstances that might require medical attention that Charlie won&#8217;t find while sleeping on a sewer grate, under an overpass, or in drug houses; places where she often found herself following her addict street friends to find their next fix.<\/p>\n<p>One morning Charlie wakes up in a hospital-like room to discover that she was abandoned on the steps of an institution for suicide survivors and mental health issues.\u00a0 This is where Charlie starts to find her voice and starts her recovery.\u00a0 However, without insurance or a stable parent, she can&#8217;t stay there forever.\u00a0 Luckily for her, though, one of her former street friends is also recovering and stable.\u00a0 He helps Charlie leave that old life in Minnesota behind and start new in Tuscon, Arizona.\u00a0 Can she leave her old demons behind and utilize her new coping mechanisms to get back on her feet at 17?<\/p>\n<p>Charlie&#8217;s story is not that of a Disney princess or a lottery winner.\u00a0 She does not find immediate happiness and new found purpose from Prince Charming or a giant personal check.\u00a0 What she does encounter is caring, compassion, friendliness and accountability to her new job and to herself.\u00a0 This is raw and real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie has been let down by all of the adults in her life starting with her father who kills himself to her mother who grieves so selfishly that she starts to abuse Charlie.\u00a0 Forced to live on the streets and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/2017\/03\/03\/girl-in-pieces-by-kathleen-glasgow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2020-03-31 20:38:00","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48799,48802],"tags":[48804,48814,48810,48806],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-realistic","tag-48804","tag-drugs","tag-hs","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}