{"id":248,"date":"2012-12-14T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/12\/14\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_14\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:28:16","slug":"christmas-holiday-extravaganza_14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_14\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Holiday Extravaganza Spotlight #14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Present by Toni Sheridan<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/the-present\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ThePresent_w11117_120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/images\/stories\/covers\/ThePresent_w11117_120.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a>What does a girl do with a Christmas present that\u2019s too good to be true?<\/p>\n<p>This<br \/>\nyear\u2019s Christmas is worse than ever. Candice Cane-Bryant (don\u2019t call her<br \/>\n Candy Cane) is stressed by her job, exhausted in her role as surrogate<br \/>\nparent to her three younger siblings, and angry with her carefree adult<br \/>\nsister, Jane. And all of that has her feeling guilty for not<br \/>\nappreciating God\u2019s gift of keeping her family together.<\/p>\n<p>When<br \/>\nJane brings home another new guy, one more weight is added to Candice\u2019s<br \/>\noversized burden. She\u2019s lonely and wants a man to love. Not just any<br \/>\nman\u2014she\u2019s in love with Dean Harlowe, Jane\u2019s boyfriend, and no matter<br \/>\nwhat she does, her feelings for him won\u2019t go away. But this year, Jane<br \/>\nhas a present for her sister, and when Candice unwraps this one,<br \/>\nChristmas will never be the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Present by Toni Sheridan What does a girl do with a Christmas present that\u2019s too good to be true? This year\u2019s Christmas is worse than ever. Candice Cane-Bryant (don\u2019t call her Candy Cane) is stressed by her job, exhausted in her role as surrogate parent to her three younger siblings, and angry with her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[512,746],"tags":[776],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-books","category-holidays","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}