{"id":28747,"date":"2016-07-26T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=28747"},"modified":"2016-07-06T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T16:33:42","slug":"the-one-only-by-emily-giffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-one-only-by-emily-giffin\/","title":{"rendered":"<I>The One &amp; Only<\/I> by Emily Giffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1057842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28748\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28748 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/the-one-and-only.jpg?resize=263%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"the one and only\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1057842\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The One &amp; Only<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Emily Giffin is a book about family, whether it be your biological family or the family that you are raised with. Shea Rigsby has lived in Walker, Texas her entire life. After graduating\u00a0from college, she even decided to stay in town and work in the athletic department at\u00a0her alma mater. The thought of leaving her beloved hometown never even occurred to her.<\/p>\n<p>Her best friend Lucy&#8217;s father,\u00a0Clive Carr,\u00a0is the head coach\u00a0of the Walker college football team, a legend within both\u00a0the coaching and local communities. He and his wife served as a second set of parents to Shea after her own parents divorced and her mother had a breakdown. Tragedy hits the Carr family, leaving them all reeling and Shea wondering if she is really happy with the way her life is going.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking up with her slacker boyfriend, Shea finds encouragement from Coach Carr and decides to look beyond Walker to expand her life. New relationships and old relationships\u00a0weave a messy web all around Shea, forcing her to leave her comfort zone and do things she never thought she would do. This book is truly chick lit with some serious football lingo thrown in. If you are fans of Emily Giffin or enjoy chick lit, check this book out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The One &amp; Only by Emily Giffin is a book about family, whether it be your biological family or the family that you are raised with. Shea Rigsby has lived in Walker, Texas her entire life. After graduating\u00a0from college, she even decided to stay in town and work in the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-one-only-by-emily-giffin\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[3697,3126,1280,246,155,287,681,470,2904,3403,3698,1235,709,420],"class_list":["post-28747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-career","tag-coach","tag-college","tag-death","tag-family","tag-football","tag-friends","tag-friendship","tag-life","tag-mother","tag-single","tag-texas","tag-tragedy","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7tF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28754,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747\/revisions\/28754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}