{"id":901,"date":"2015-03-09T01:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2015-03-07T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T23:29:13","slug":"romance-it-does-the-reader-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/musings\/romance-it-does-the-reader-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance&#8230; It Does the Reader Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One reason I write romance is because I believe in love.\u00a0 And after all, love does make the world go round. Also because I enjoy a good story where the hero and heroine suffer and fight to get what they want&#8211;often head-to-head against each other. Where the odds are often stacked against them both in life and in love. But after all that suffering and angsting, in the end love triumphs, and the other challenges and hurdles just might get solved, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/writeromance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-902\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/writeromance-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"writeromance\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/writeromance-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/writeromance-624x432.jpg 624w, https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/writeromance.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Life is full of bad news and sad endings. Why not indulge in stories that we know will have the payoff we all dream of&#8211;an optimistic ending?<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<br \/>\n<em><strong>Ann<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Connect with me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ann-Roth\/290533377720298?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/images\/facebook-btn.jpg\" alt=\"Visit Ann on Facebook\" width=\"40\" height=\"41\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nFollow me on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ann_roth\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/images\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Follow Ann on Twitter\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSign up for my newsletter: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/images\/mailing-list.png\" alt=\"Join Ann's Mailing List\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\nStop by my website: <a href=\"http:\/\/%20www.annroth.net\">www.annroth.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason I write romance is because I believe in love.\u00a0 And after all, love does make the world go round. Also because I enjoy a good story where the hero and heroine suffer and fight to get what they want&#8211;often head-to-head against each other. Where the odds are often stacked against them both in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,14],"tags":[4,472,471,473,80,470,133,344],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivational-monday","category-musings","tag-ann-roth","tag-challenges","tag-hurdles","tag-indulge","tag-love","tag-optimistic","tag-romance","tag-write"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}