{"id":1261,"date":"2012-09-19T01:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T01:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:38:07","slug":"essay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/essay\/chris-galvin\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essays: Chris Galvin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/03\/Chris-Galvin-pic--146x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Essays: Chris Galvin\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/essay\/chris-galvin\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essays: Chris Galvin\">Writings \/ Essays: Chris Galvin<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">An Evening with Kim Th\u00fay \r\nIn a seamless blend of memoir and fiction, Kim Th\u00fay\u2019s first novel, Ru  (Random House, 2012) tells the story of a young girl who leaves Vi\u1ec7t Nam after the fall of S\u00e0i G\u00f2n. Like Th\u00fay, the girl and her family arrive in Canada v...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1260,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261\/revisions\/1329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}