{"id":101878,"date":"2016-08-24T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=101878"},"modified":"2017-03-06T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:46:38","slug":"summer-hours-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/summer-hours-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Hours, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upthecreekheaderweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-101879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upthecreekheaderweb.jpg\" alt=\"upthecreekheaderweb\" width=\"594\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Catch up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/summer-hours-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/26\/summer-hours-part-2\/\">Part 2<\/a> of Vanessa Davis\u2019s column.\u00a0<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upthecreekweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-101880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upthecreekweb.jpg\" alt=\"upthecreekweb\" width=\"594\" height=\"4392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/summer-hours-part-4-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Read Part 4 here.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Vanessa Davis is the author of the collections <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781770462564\" target=\"_blank\">Spaniel Rage<\/a><em> and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/make-me-a-woman\" target=\"_blank\">Make Me a Woman<\/a><em>. 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