{"id":2886,"date":"2016-05-14T22:18:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T02:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2016-05-14T22:18:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T02:18:14","slug":"rosalias-bittersweet-pastry-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/rosalias-bittersweet-pastry-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosalia&#8217;s Bittersweet Pastry Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1445791430l\/26236905.jpg\" alt=\"26236905\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1ql26eH\">Rosalia&#8217;s Bittersweet Pastry Shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever been through a tragic or traumatic experience that strengthened your faith in God?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This book was such a sweet treat to read! I mean that literally. The pastries, cakes and cookies, so decadent and divine! This novel also has some tasty recipes at the end!<\/p>\n<p>After a traumatic experience, young Rosalia is separated from her family. Mentally and physically broken, she&#8217;s unable to forgive herself for her horrible experience and she&#8217;s rescued by a group of nuns. The nuns run a famous pastry shop. Rosalia finds joy, comfort and love by working with the nuns, learning to bake sweets.<\/p>\n<p>This book is about overcoming unwarranted guilt, learning to love ourselves in spite of life&#8217;s traumatic experiences. In spite of all that happened to her, Rosalia tried hard to keep her faith in God, even when her questions remained unanswered. Her pastries become well-known in Italy &#8211; her unique sweets are so delicious that people think she must add a secret ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this book if you like stories about food and faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, have you ever been through a tragic or traumatic experience that strengthened your faith in God?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Rosalia&#8217;s Bittersweet Pastry Shop Have you ever been through a tragic or traumatic experience that strengthened your faith in God? This book was such a sweet treat to read! I mean that literally. The pastries, cakes and cookies, so decadent and divine! This novel also has some tasty recipes at the end! After [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-Ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}