{"id":410,"date":"2026-03-11T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/?p=410"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:00:45","slug":"book-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Book Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, June 16th, at 6:30 p.m. we will be meeting to discuss Kate Meader, a novel by Deborah Gould.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kate Meader has had her share of hard times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deaths of both her young son and her husband during the Civil War years left her struggling in the aftermath of loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She eventually finds stability and purpose when she accepts the position of live-in cook at the almshouse in Gardiner, Maine. Here she feeds the homeless residents of the city\u2014the poor, the infirm, the defective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201crabble,\u201d as she first thinks of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then in January of 1900, a new inmate appears at the city farm, a Civil War veteran named Nicholas Dale, and Kate\u2019s life takes a turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, June 16th, at 6:30 p.m. we will be meeting to discuss Kate Meader, a novel by Deborah Gould. Kate Meader has had her &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}