{"id":890,"date":"2015-04-08T01:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T06:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2015-04-08T01:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T06:23:05","slug":"review-the-witness-wore-red-the-19th-wife-who-brought-polygamous-cult-leaders-to-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/review-the-witness-wore-red-the-19th-wife-who-brought-polygamous-cult-leaders-to-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17333444\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1397434872m\/17333444.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17333444\">The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6922561\">Rebecca Musser<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/723053274\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      This was powerful. I remember when the book came out I watched Musser on some TV show. She seemed so relatable and her story was intriguing. This book illustrates that.<\/p>\n<p>She tells her life story from childhood. The experiences she had in the FLDS were beyond what I imagined. And this helps give context for the rest of the story. <\/p>\n<p>The most powerful part of the book is the description of Warren Jeffs&#8217; trial. It was really hard to listen to. If I was actually turning pages it would have taken me a lot longer because I would have been stopping to put the book down after every few sentences.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that there&#8217;s some kind of controversy about whether her story is accurate or full of exaggerations. I don&#8217;t understand where that comes from and what it&#8217;s based on. What makes her untrustworthy? I have no reason to believe that the truth is anything other than the story she tells. <\/p>\n<p>My only troubles I had were the few occasions when I was mentally correcting her wording or sentence structure. Though, it&#8217;s possible that some of it was just her stylistic cc choices.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an excellent story that every American should read. <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/723053274\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice by Rebecca Musser My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was powerful. I remember when the book came out I watched Musser on some TV show. She seemed so relatable and her story was intriguing. This book illustrates that. She tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[5],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-em","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}