{"id":1735,"date":"2017-02-28T18:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:48:40","slug":"essayist-phillip-lopate-returns-to-exploration-of-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Essayist Phillip Lopate returns to exploration of family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/liftarn-Adult-and-child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1736 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/liftarn-Adult-and-child-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"liftarn-Adult-and-child\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/liftarn-Adult-and-child-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/liftarn-Adult-and-child.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a>Parents are complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Over a lifetime, children watch them transition from the infallible arbiters of childhood into the frail collection of ailments endemic to old age.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Lopate&#8217;s mother was an exceptionally complicated person.<\/p>\n<p>Two decade ago, Lopate interviewed her about her life. Twenty five tape-recorded hours later, Lopate had the foundation for his new book, <em>A Mother&#8217;s Tale,<\/em>\u00a0from the Ohio State University Press. Listen in as Ohio State University MFA Samantha Tucker talks craft with Phillip Lopate: what issues he faced in writing the book, what he learned about his mother and himself, and what it&#8217;s like to be the child of a monologist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4379\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1735-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_PhillipLopate.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_PhillipLopate.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_PhillipLopate.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_PhillipLopate.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1735-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_PhillipLopate.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_PhillipLopate.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are complicated. Over a lifetime, children watch them transition from the infallible arbiters of childhood into the frail collection of ailments endemic to old age. Phillip Lopate&#8217;s mother was an exceptionally complicated person. Two decade ago, Lopate interviewed her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1735\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,6,14],"tags":[426,424,423,312,425],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-new-books","category-original-craft-productions","tag-a-mothers-tale","tag-essays","tag-phillip-lopate","tag-samantha-tucker","tag-the-ohio-state-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}