{"id":260,"date":"2012-12-04T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_4\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:28:17","slug":"christmas-holiday-extravaganza_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_4\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Holiday Extravaganza Spotlight #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Christmas Homecoming by MaryAnn Diorio<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/a-christmas-homecoming\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AChristmasHomecoming_h11273_120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/images\/stories\/covers\/AChristmasHomecoming_h11273_120.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\" width=\"73\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSeven<br \/>\nChristmases have passed since Sonia Pettit last heard from her daughter<br \/>\nJody. Since Jody\u2019s departure, Sonia\u2019s world has been turned upside down.<br \/>\n Her husband has died of a broken heart, and her son, bitter over his<br \/>\nsister\u2019s destructive actions, has become rebellious. <\/p>\n<p>Her<br \/>\ngreatest desire is to have her family together at Christmas, but after<br \/>\nwhat Jody has put them all through, can Sonia truly forgive her<br \/>\ndaughter?<\/p>\n<p>Jody Pettit O\u2019Dair ran away to experience a life of adventure and excitement, but since her <br \/>\ndeparture,<br \/>\n her world has been turned upside down. She\u2019s been abandoned by the man<br \/>\nshe met and married, lost her job, and is unable to care for her two<br \/>\nchildren. With nowhere else to turn, this prodigal daughter begins the<br \/>\nlong journey home and prays she will be welcomed after walking away so<br \/>\nlong ago. <\/p>\n<p>Will Jody find forgiveness in the arms of her family as easily as she received it from God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas Homecoming by MaryAnn Diorio Seven Christmases have passed since Sonia Pettit last heard from her daughter Jody. Since Jody\u2019s departure, Sonia\u2019s world has been turned upside down. Her husband has died of a broken heart, and her son, bitter over his sister\u2019s destructive actions, has become rebellious. Her greatest desire is to have [&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-260","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\/260","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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}