{"id":199,"date":"2019-08-19T21:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juliaamante.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=199"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:13:38","slug":"that-was-then","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/?portfolio=that-was-then","title":{"rendered":"That Was Then"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juliaamante.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/JuliaAmante_ThatWasThen_eCover_800-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/JuliaAmante_ThatWasThen_eCover_800-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/JuliaAmante_ThatWasThen_eCover_800-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/JuliaAmante_ThatWasThen_eCover_800-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/JuliaAmante_ThatWasThen_eCover_800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Grace Montoya won a battle with cancer five years earlier, but now she is sick again. While Grace thinks it\u2019s time to pass down lessons to her daughters before it\u2019s too late, those who love her refuse to let her give up. Her mother has made a deal with God, and her 17-year-old daughter, Jessica devises the most unexpected medicine of all: bringing back and old love \u2013 the father she\u2019s never met. After all, if love can heal anything, maybe it can heal her mother. Daniel Subia, left his small town and high school sweetheart to follow his dreams. But getting a call from a daughter he didn\u2019t know he had, brings him home to find everything changed. The small-town charm and acres of orange groves he grew up with have been swallowed by developers and abandoned by younger generations. Yes, everything has changed but the love he once had for Grace\u2014that\u2019s still burning as hot as ever. In a town where nothing is as it used to be, is it possible to go back to a time when life was simple and everything was possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07767YXY6\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2\">Buy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Grace Montoya won a battle with cancer five years earlier, but now she is sick again. While Grace thinks it\u2019s time to pass down lessons to her daughters before it\u2019s too late, those who love her refuse to let her give up. Her mother has made a deal with God, and her 17-year-old daughter, Jessica devises the most unexpected medicine of all: bringing back and old love &#8211; the father she&#8217;s never met. After all, if love can heal anything, maybe it can heal her mother. Daniel Subia, left his small town and high school sweetheart to follow his dreams. But getting a call from a daughter he didn\u2019t know he had, brings him home to find everything changed. The small-town charm and acres of orange groves he grew up with have been swallowed by developers and abandoned by younger generations. Yes, everything has changed but the love he once had for Grace\u2014that\u2019s still burning as hot as ever. In a town where nothing is as it used to be, is it possible to go back to a time when life was simple and everything was possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[14],"portfolio_tag":[19,20,15,16,17,18],"class_list":["post-199","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","hentry","portfolio_category-books","portfolio_tag-cancer","portfolio_tag-cervical-cancer","portfolio_tag-inland-empire","portfolio_tag-orange-groves","portfolio_tag-romance","portfolio_tag-second-chance-at-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/199\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaamante.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}