{"id":33066,"date":"2016-04-05T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=33066"},"modified":"2016-05-12T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T07:05:32","slug":"melanie-rae-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/melanie-rae-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Rae Thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Melanie-Rae-by-Andi-Olsen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33067\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Melanie-Rae-by-Andi-Olsen-923x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Melanie Rae by Andi Olsen\" width=\"600\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Melanie-Rae-by-Andi-Olsen-923x1024.jpg 923w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Melanie-Rae-by-Andi-Olsen-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Melanie-Rae-by-Andi-Olsen-900x998.jpg 900w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Melanie-Rae-by-Andi-Olsen.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur only hope of finding grace was to tell our stories to each other,\u201d writes Melanie Rae Thon in an essay titled \u201cYou Can\u2019t Avoid Trouble: First, Body.\u201d Both the line and the essay\u2019s title are apt descriptions of Thon, who has been crafting graceful and haunting stories rife with bodily and spiritual harm for over three decades. . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author of several books of poetry, fiction and essays, Melanie Rae Thon is the recent recipient of a Fellowship from The Guggenheim Foundation. She&#8217;s also one of the featured authors in Artist of Utah&#8217;s upcoming literary series at Finch Lane Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Read our profile in the <a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes\/16apr\/page6.html\" target=\"_blank\">April 2016 edition of 15 Bytes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur only hope of finding grace was to tell our stories to each other,\u201d writes Melanie Rae Thon in an essay titled \u201cYou Can\u2019t Avoid Trouble: First, Body.\u201d Both the line and the essay\u2019s title are apt descriptions of Thon, who has been crafting graceful and haunting stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[1489,1135],"class_list":["post-33066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-bytes","category-literary-arts","tag-by-michael-mclane","tag-melanie-rae-thon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-2.15.53-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 12:03:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33068,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33066\/revisions\/33068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}