{"id":12873,"date":"2024-04-10T13:28:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosterlibraries.org\/?p=12873"},"modified":"2024-04-10T13:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:28:01","slug":"the-promise-by-bobby-depalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/?p=12873","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Promise&#8221; by Bobby DePalo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cathy recommends:<\/strong> <em>The Promise<\/em> by Bobby DePalo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre: <\/strong>Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reading level:<\/strong> Adult<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong> One man&#8217;s journey to complete a promise decades old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cathy says:<\/strong> The adage &#8216;What goes around, comes around&#8217; is perfectly exemplified here. This novella is so concisely written that it packs an emotional punch with almost every turn of a page. At the end of the book, the reader is left asking oneself, &#8220;What just happened?!&#8221; Of interest, Mr. DePalo, the author, was Foster&#8217;s Citizen of the Year in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>This title is available at Tyler Free Library and Foster Public Library.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20240325_111441387_PORTRAIT-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12997\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man&#8217;s journey to complete a promise decades old. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_recurring":false,"_piecal_recurring_interval":1,"_piecal_recurring_frequency":"","_piecal_recurring_exact_position":false,"_piecal_recurring_end":"","_piecal_color":"","_piecal_text_color":"","_piecal_global_color_master":false,"_piecal_rsets":"[]","_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,17,23],"class_list":["post-12873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-recs","tag-adult","tag-cathy-recs","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}