{"id":37239,"date":"2023-08-04T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T04:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37239"},"modified":"2023-08-04T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T04:03:54","slug":"im-writing-a-book-and-ill-be-talking-about-it-as-it-progresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37239","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m writing a book \u2014 and I\u2019ll be talking about it as it progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TAMF-video-intro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37240\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TAMF-video-intro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TAMF-video-intro.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TAMF-video-intro-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TAMF-video-intro-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many years, I\u2019ve intended to write a book about what it\u2019s like to be raised by a narcissistic parent \u2014 and about my struggles to understand what happened to me. I\u2019m finally writing that book, which is called, \u201cThe Truth About My Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a side project, I\u2019ve set up a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCliyrI-UYvz_rox73NonXrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a> on which I\u2019m going to be posting videos about some of the thoughts that come up for me as I write the book. I realize this isn\u2019t for most people, but if you have some personal experience with narcissism in someone around you, it might interest you.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how often I\u2019ll publish new videos, but if you\u2019d like to know more as they come out, just subscribe to the channel and click on the choice to be notified when new videos are published.<\/p>\n<p>For now, you can see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UYea6Avscao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five-minute introduction<\/a> to the channel below:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UYea6Avscao\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, I\u2019ve intended to write a book about what it\u2019s like to be raised by a narcissistic parent \u2014 and about my struggles to understand what happened to me. I\u2019m finally writing that book, which is called, \u201cThe Truth About My Father.\u201d As a side project, I\u2019ve set up a new YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37239\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-9GD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37243,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37239\/revisions\/37243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}