{"id":977,"date":"2008-09-23T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=977"},"modified":"2008-10-01T08:58:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:58:51","slug":"escape-by-carolyn-jessop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/escape-by-carolyn-jessop\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape by Carolyn Jessop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/escape-carolyn-jessop.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-983 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/escape-carolyn-jessop.jpg?resize=239%2C239&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/escape-carolyn-jessop.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/escape-carolyn-jessop.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/escape-carolyn-jessop.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocn153581188&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">Escape<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is an amazing true story about a young woman who belonged to the fundamentalist <em>polygamist<\/em> sect of the Mormon church. Carolyn Jessop tells how at the age of 18 she was chosen to marry a 50 year old man with three existing wives.<\/p>\n<p>The underlying question for me is what makes a woman have 8 children in 15 years and live in a house with 50 others (6 sister wives and 45 + children) but only one husband? Carolyn Jessop truly helps me understand (albeit not <em>agree<\/em> with) how her situation could possibly exist today &#8211; being a third generation in this &#8220;cult&#8221; as she calls it, is all she&#8217;s ever known.<\/p>\n<p>After years of abuse from husband, sister wives and the sect in general, Carolyn secures a plan of escape with her 8 children ranging in ages from 15 yrs. to 18 months. This is the same FLDS controlled by Warren Jeffs that has recently been all over the news.<\/p>\n<p>Her story is organized and told objectively. It also made for some awesome conversations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escape is an amazing true story about a young woman who belonged to the fundamentalist polygamist sect of the Mormon church. Carolyn Jessop tells how at the age of 18 she was chosen to marry a 50 year old man with three existing wives. The underlying question for me is<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/escape-by-carolyn-jessop\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[153,151,152],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-fundamentalist","tag-mormans","tag-polygamist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-fL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}