{"id":3306,"date":"2020-11-30T08:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2020-11-30T08:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:27:06","slug":"mother-missing-from-beautiful-statue-of-mariano-medina-and-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=3306","title":{"rendered":"Mother Missing from Beautiful Statue of Mariano Medina and Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Statue-of-Mariano-Medina-and-Lena-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Statue-of-Mariano-Medina-and-Lena-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Statue-of-Mariano-Medina-and-Lena-705x442.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Statue-of-Mariano-Medina-and-Lena-450x282.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Statue-of-Mariano-Medina-and-Lena.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This beautiful statue of Mariano Medina and his daughter Lena, created by gifted sculptor Jane Dedecker, was installed at the new Larimer County building in Loveland, Colorado, in May 2018.\u00a0 As much as I love the piece, I wish Lena&#8217;s mother, Takansy, were also present.\u00a0 She is the main character in my latest historical novel, Mariano&#8217;s Woman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marianos-Woman-email-image-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marianos-Woman-email-image-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marianos-Woman-email-image-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marianos-Woman-email-image-1500x773.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marianos-Woman-email-image-705x363.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marianos-Woman-email-image-450x232.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marianos-Woman-email-image.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This beautiful statue of Mariano Medina and his daughter Lena, created by gifted sculptor Jane Dedecker, was installed at the new Larimer County building in Loveland, Colorado, in May 2018.\u00a0 As much as I love the piece, I wish Lena&#8217;s mother, Takansy, were also present.\u00a0 She is the main character in my latest historical novel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}