{"id":1047,"date":"2014-02-21T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2018-06-07T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:01:11","slug":"the-velvet-curtain-by-trudy-harvey-tait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"The Velvet Curtain by Trudy Harvey Tait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are the characters in your novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/?product=vol-1-the-velvet-curtain\">\u201cThe Velvet Curtain\u201d<\/a> people you have actually known? This is a question I get asked fairly frequently and I suppose,like many writers, I would have to answer \u201cYes\u201d and \u201cNo.\u201d The two sisters, Esther and Gabby were originally based on two Romanian girls I had come to know pretty well, but as <a href=\"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/?product=vol-1-the-velvet-curtain\">\u201cThe Velvet Curtain\u201d<\/a> progressed, Esther became less and less like the original girl I had in mind. Gabby, on the other hand, stayed pretty true to form although she did a great many things that the real \u201cGabby\u201d (that was not her name, of course) never did. But in character, the fictional and the real greatly resembled one another.<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a038ff503bd39057710662' value='6a038ff503bd39057710662'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a038ff503bd39057710662' value='Continue reading...'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a038ff503bd39057710662' value='Show Less'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a038ff503bd39057710662' ><br \/>\nThe other characters resembled \u201ctypes\u201d of people I had known. Larry, in \u201cBehind the Velvet Curtain,\u201d the second in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/?product_cat=trudy-harvey-tait-books\">The Velvet Curtain Series,<\/a>\u201d was the most difficult of all my characters to make come alive. My family told me that I caricatured him because he lived in a totally different world from the one in which I had been brought up and so I could not enter into his mindset as I had for most of the other characters. Well, I tried to do just that and found it almost impossible. Ramona, also, posed somewhat of the same problem. I trust, however, that due to good advice and a lot of hard work and prayer, each character does come to life.<br \/>\n\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/?product_cat=trudy-harvey-tait-books\">The Velvet Curtain Series<\/a>,\u201d is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a038ff503bd39057710662' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#cc1818;;\" href='#'>Continue reading...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the characters in your novel, \u201cThe Velvet Curtain\u201d people you have actually known? This is a question I get asked fairly frequently and I suppose,like many writers, I would have to answer \u201cYes\u201d and \u201cNo.\u201d The two sisters, Esther and Gabby were originally based on two Romanian girls I had come to know pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[42,199],"tags":[259,260,261,262],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-novels","tag-based-on-real-people","tag-caricatured","tag-come-alive","tag-fictional-characters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Xgj9-gT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}