{"id":1071,"date":"2021-04-25T18:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T18:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2021-04-25T20:57:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T20:57:06","slug":"counting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Counting  Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1077\" src=\"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-100x133.jpg 100w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/three-legged_cat-900x1200.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@aramsabah?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Aram Sabah<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/cat-on-roof?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The waiting is large as we count down to the book release date of May 4, silence in a void of stilled voices, anticipation and apprehension together, delicious and harsh, awaiting the launch of <em>You Will Never Be Normal.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I randomly recall June, 1969. I was a single mother, the same age as the students hitch-hiking across the country to be at SDS in Chicago, as I shared an impromptu backyard dinner on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon with two poets\u2014working poets-in-residence at universities. A three-legged cat loped across the roof and down a tree to stalk a squirrel and a poem was created. I wanted just that, to be the writer who could find a story in a three-legged cat, and delight in it when I couldn&#8217;t even make it to Chicago. I didn&#8217;t know for a long, long time that<strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>I<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>was a three-legged cat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is exactly the book I needed and was compelled to write to make sense of my own story, to share with those who hunger for it, to affirm the experiential truth of DID. In all imaginable scenarios, this truth remains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Aram Sabah on Unsplash) The waiting is large as we count down to the book release date of May 4, silence in a void of stilled voices, anticipation and apprehension together, delicious and harsh, awaiting the launch of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/?p=1071\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Counting  Down<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,62,61],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-story","tag-three-legged-cat","tag-waiting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}