{"id":308,"date":"2025-01-27T18:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T23:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=308"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T23:37:34","slug":"my-mama-cass-by-owen-eliot-kugell-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"<i>My Mama, Cass<\/i> by Owen Elliot-Kugell (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-309 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/81Gxp6qEYRL._SL1500_-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/81Gxp6qEYRL._SL1500_-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/81Gxp6qEYRL._SL1500_-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/81Gxp6qEYRL._SL1500_-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/81Gxp6qEYRL._SL1500_.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px\" \/>I&#8217;ve been listening to a podcast series about the Mamas and the Papas, and remembered that this book by Cass&#8217; daughter was in the works. One quick download from the library and I started reading.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wistful book&#8211;losing your only parent at seven doesn&#8217;t lead to many first-person anecdotes. More interesting is Elliot-Kugell&#8217;s life growing up with the loss.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to go back and listen to the few tracks I have of her to see what her singing voice is like compared to her mom&#8217;s.\u00a0 The most interesting thing I learned is that she thought of the idea for a singing group and what became Wilson Phillips until they cut her out of the group!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to a podcast series about the Mamas and the Papas, and remembered that this book by Cass&#8217; daughter was in the works. One quick download from the library and I started reading. It&#8217;s a wistful book&#8211;losing your only parent at seven doesn&#8217;t lead to many first-person anecdotes. More interesting is Elliot-Kugell&#8217;s life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>My Mama, Cass<\/i> by Owen Elliot-Kugell (2024)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}