{"id":117,"date":"2015-07-14T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamaragranthambooks.com\/2015\/07\/a-new-purpose\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:20:46","slug":"a-new-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/a-new-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I listened to a talk called &#8220;Like a Broken Vessel&#8221; by Jeffrey R. Holland. I clicked it by accident, and didn&#8217;t even know what the topic of the talk was about, but to my surprise, found that it addressed the topic of mental health.<br \/>\nSome of you may know that I&#8217;ve struggled with depression off-and-on, but the talk made me consider other things. I know there are others who suffer like me, and most of us suffer in silence. Despite all our research, there is still a stigma toward those who suffer with mental health issues.<br \/>\nAlso, I write about a therapist who counsels those with mental health problems. Even though I write about a fictional character whose patients have visited Fairy World, I feel that my writing about this subject is no accident.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve decided that my writing won&#8217;t be just for fun anymore&#8211;but for a cause, so I&#8217;ve decided to donate a percentage of my book sales to mental health research.<br \/>\nDreamthief debuts on September 1, 2015, and while I would love everyone to read my book, I would also love it more if I could spread the word about mental health. All shares and likes and kudos and prayers for those suffering with depression are appreciated!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-w3t3i_pJhbs\/VaUlif7fFXI\/AAAAAAAABG4\/C8ik8YtX_Mc\/s1600\/9781634220767-cov.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"228\" src=\"http:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/9781634220767-cov.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I listened to a talk called &#8220;Like a Broken Vessel&#8221; by Jeffrey R. Holland. I clicked it by accident, and didn&#8217;t even know what the topic of the talk was about, but to my surprise, found that it addressed the topic of mental health. Some of you may know that I&#8217;ve struggled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}