{"id":2196,"date":"2025-07-11T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2025-07-15T04:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:09:14","slug":"the-last-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/?p=2196","title":{"rendered":"The Last Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/book-cover.jpg?resize=250%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Last Family\" class=\"wp-image-2200\" style=\"width:151px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/book-cover.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/book-cover.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m trying an experiment. Starting July 30 I will be publishing a book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/last-family\/\">The Last Family,<\/a><\/em> on this website, in a strange and unusual way. The book will appear in segments, synchronized in real time with the events of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s about an ordinary family of five: Brewer, Amy, and their kids Garrett, Claire, and Trevor. They get home from a hiking trip to find that they are all alone. Everyone else in the world has disappeared. They must figure out how to survive, how to find others, how to endure together in this strange new life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book unfolds as a series of diary entries, each member of the family telling their story with their own distinct voice and perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first entry appears on July 30 at 10:51 PM CT. The next appears soon afterward, and I\u2019ll release it at the date and time of its writing. And so it will go, day by day, hour by hour, new entries appearing at various times, as long as the family keeps writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don\u2019t want to miss anything, <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffwofford.com\/last-family\">subscribe<\/a> and I\u2019ll shoot you an email each time a new entry is released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you like reading\u2014or if you don\u2019t like reading but like experiencing gripping stories in new ways\u2014please join me for this <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffwofford.com\/last-family\/\">little experiment.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m trying an experiment. Starting July 30 I will be publishing a book, The Last Family, on this website, in a strange and unusual way. The book will appear in segments, synchronized in real time with the events of the story. It&#8217;s about an ordinary family of five: Brewer, Amy, and their kids Garrett, Claire, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/?p=2196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Last Family&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffwofford.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}