{"id":18669,"date":"2026-04-17T20:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=18669"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:59:45","slug":"irje-9-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/irje-9-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo\/","title":{"rendered":"IRJE #9- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo\u00a0<\/em>is written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and follows a 79-year-old Hollywood icon who hires a young journalist, Monique Grant, to write her life story. Evelyn remembers her rise to fame, her seven marriages, and her long-term, hidden love affair with fellow actress Celia St. James, as she navigates the intense scrutiny and homophobia of Old Hollywood.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evelyn looks at me with purpose. &#8220;Do you understand what I&#8217;m telling you? When you&#8217;re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn&#8217;t give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.\u201d (p.35)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I chose this quotation because it was something that stood out to me while reading the book. This is one of those books that I have read countless times, and this quotation is one that I really love to read. The quotation is explaining that opportunities don&#8217;t mean anything if you don&#8217;t act on them, success isn&#8217;t something that is just handed to you, so you have to be willing to do what others won&#8217;t. If you want to change something in your life, you can&#8217;t just sit around and wait for it to happen; you have to take risks and push hard to ensure it comes true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo\u00a0is written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and follows a 79-year-old Hollywood icon who hires a young journalist, Monique Grant, to write her life story. Evelyn remembers her rise to fame, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18670,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions\/18670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}