{"id":30191,"date":"2016-07-21T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=30191"},"modified":"2016-07-21T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T18:02:44","slug":"theyre-finally-a-couple-does-he-have-to-leave-town-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/theyre-finally-a-couple-does-he-have-to-leave-town-now\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Finally a Couple >>> Does He Have to Leave Town Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30193 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/luggage-e1469030152306.png\" alt=\"luggage\" width=\"250\" height=\"205\" \/>Last month, in the recommendations, MJ brought up a point that I have wondered about in the past. MJ was referencing Kate Carlisle&#8217;s Bibliophile mysteries and here&#8217;s her comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This author does a fantastic job of keeping the relationship between Brooklyn and Derek relevant and vibrant. They work beautifully together and their rapport adds to a pleasurable read. As with several cozy relationships, it started out antagonistic and developed into a \u2018couple\u2019 relationship. MANY, many other cozy authors (some of my favorites) send the significant other (once they become a couple) on trips and their part in the story is reduced to a few phone calls. KUDOS to this author for her creativity!!! (This might be a topic worth discussing sometime \u2014 do you want the male half of the couple to remain an integral part of the story or not?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t respond at the time, instead I decided to take her advice and ask you all about this. Once a sleuth is in a &#8220;couple relationship&#8221; &gt;&gt;&gt; have you noticed her (his) partner leaves town a whole lot? If so, how do you feel about the partner&#8217;s part being reduced to a few phone calls? Please post a comment. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, in the recommendations, MJ brought up a point that I have wondered about in the past. MJ was referencing Kate Carlisle&#8217;s Bibliophile mysteries and here&#8217;s her comment: This author does a fantastic job of keeping the relationship between Brooklyn and Derek relevant and vibrant. They work beautifully together and their rapport adds to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-site-readers-comment","7":"category-cozy-site-readers-question","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-7QX","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30206,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191\/revisions\/30206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}