{"id":15476,"date":"2020-09-24T13:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=15476"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:15:37","slug":"charles-monet-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who is Charles Monet the Ebola patient? How did Charles Monet get Ebola and what happened during the outbreak?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Monet, an Ebola patient living in Western Kenya, is believe to have contracted the disease directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/kitum-cave\/\">Kitum Cave<\/a>, a place where many believe the virus lay dormant, waiting for a host. Monet then became ill, and spread the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Charles Monet, Ebola, and how the outbreak spread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1980: The Case of Charles Monet<\/strong> the Ebola Patient<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1980, Charles Monet, a French expatriate living in Western Kenya, spent New Year\u2019s Day exploring Kitum Cave with a friend. A week later, he began getting sick.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cave holds a petrified rainforest from a volcanic eruption seven million years ago, and the petrified rocks are surrounded by sharp crystals made of minerals. Additionally, the cave\u2019s surfaces are coated with elephant dung and the excrement of both fruit- and insect-eating bats. <strong>Monet could\u2019ve easily scratched himself on a sharp rock or crystal, exposing him to viruses in the animal dung.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Monet&#8217;s Ebola symptoms began soon after. First, got a throbbing headache. In the following few days, he developed other symptoms, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Aching, bright red eyeballs<\/li><li>Aching temples<\/li><li>Severe backache<\/li><li>Intense vomiting and dry heaves<\/li><li>Lifeless, expressionless face with drooping eyelids<\/li><li>Yellowish skin on his face, speckled with bright red spots<\/li><li>Personality changes, becoming more hostile&nbsp;<\/li><li>Memory loss, despite being lucid<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After several days, Monet\u2019s coworker took him to a nearby hospital. The doctors didn\u2019t recognize the illness, nor did they know how to treat it. When antibiotics didn\u2019t help, they suggested he go to the best private hospital in East Africa, Nairobi Hospital. Sick as he was, Monet was still lucid and mobile, so he got in a taxi and headed to the airport.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As soon as Monet boarded the flight, he unknowingly exposed the world to the virus<\/strong>: He was in a cramped, probably full plane with people <em>from <\/em>anywhere in the world, traveling <em>to <\/em>anywhere in the world. Modern air travel routes make it possible for a disease to spread anywhere in the world within 24 hours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charles <strong>Monet\u2019s Ebola Symptoms Intensify<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>During the flight, Charles Monet\u2019s Ebola symptoms worsened. They included:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bruises covering his face and head, where the red spots had previously been&nbsp;<\/li><li>Sagging facial muscles, as his face\u2019s connective tissue dissolved<\/li><li>Blood clots in his head, hands, feet, lungs, liver, intestines, and kidneys<\/li><li>Brain damage from blood clots in his brain, resulting in an erasure of personality called depersonalization<\/li><li>Loss of higher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-are-the-regions-of-the-brain\/\">brain functions<\/a> as parts of his brain liquefied, leaving only more primitive parts of his brain intact&nbsp;<\/li><li>Incessant nosebleed, as his body had used all the clotting factors to create the blood clots<\/li><li>Black vomit<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The black vomit was a sign that Monet was experiencing extreme amplification, meaning <strong>the virus had multiplied so extensively that it inhabited every part of the body, from skin to brain. <\/strong>The virus was literally taking over its host. By this point, even a drop of Monet\u2019s blood may have had a hundred million particles of the virus, and the black vomit itself was heavily laden with the virus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still able to walk, Monet got off the plane, into a taxi, and headed to Nairobi Hospital. As he sat in the waiting room, he entered the final phase\u2014what military biohazard specialists call \u201ccrashing and bleeding out.\u201d This entailed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dizziness and weakness, as his spine lost strength and feeling&nbsp;<\/li><li>Losing consciousness<\/li><li>Shock&nbsp;<\/li><li>Vomiting blood and black material, even after he was unconscious<\/li><li>His bowels opening and releasing a mixture of intestinal lining and blood from his anus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Monet laid sprawled on the floor of the waiting room in a pool of blood. <strong>The virus had nearly killed its host, and now it had to find a new host in order to survive.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Virus Jumps Hosts<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The nurses wheeled Monet\u2014barely alive\u2014into the intensive care unit, where a young doctor named Shem Musoke inspected him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musoke had no idea what kind of illness this was, but his first priority was to help Monet breathe, which was becoming increasingly difficult as he hemorrhaged and his airways filled with blood and mucus. Without wearing gloves, Musoke put his finger in Monet\u2019s mouth to clear the blood and mucus so he could insert the laryngoscope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Musoke leaned close to Monet\u2019s face, peering down his throat, Monet spewed black vomit all over Musoke, the gurney, and the floor around them. <strong>Bits of vomit landed in Musoke\u2019s eyes and mouth.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musoke got Monet breathing again, but Monet was losing so much blood that his blood pressure was plummeting. Musoke attempted to give him a blood transfusion, but each time he tried inserting the needle, Monet\u2019s vein gave way and blood came pouring out, unable to clot. At the same time, Monet continued to hemorrhage from his bowels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monet fell deeper into a coma and died hours later. <strong>As doctors performed the autopsy, Monet\u2019s body looked like it had been dead for days, not hours.<\/strong> Monet\u2019s liver was yellow and partially liquefied, and his intestinal lining had shed\u2014both of which are common in days-old corpses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Charles Monet the Ebola patient? How did Charles Monet get Ebola and what happened during the outbreak? Charles Monet, an Ebola patient living in Western Kenya, is believe to have contracted the disease directly from Kitum Cave, a place where many believe the virus lay dormant, waiting for a host. Monet then became ill, and spread the virus. Read more about Charles Monet, Ebola, and how the outbreak spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,33],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-15476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-people","tag-the-hot-zone","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Who is Charles Monet the Ebola patient? In 1980, Charles Monet contracted Ebola after visiting Kitum Cave. Here&#039;s what happened.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who is Charles Monet the Ebola patient? In 1980, Charles Monet contracted Ebola after visiting Kitum Cave. Here&#039;s what happened.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Shortform Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-24T17:30:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-27T19:15:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wordpress.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carrie Cabral\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carrie Cabral\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Carrie Cabral\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2ababb7c63a94ff5d2190f71dc417d56\"},\"headline\":\"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-24T17:30:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-27T19:15:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/\"},\"wordCount\":894,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"The Hot Zone\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Health\",\"People\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/\",\"name\":\"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave - Shortform Books\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-24T17:30:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-27T19:15:37+00:00\",\"description\":\"Who is Charles Monet the Ebola patient? In 1980, Charles Monet contracted Ebola after visiting Kitum Cave. Here's what happened.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Shortform Books\",\"description\":\"The World&#039;s Best Book Summaries\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Shortform Books\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":74,\"caption\":\"Shortform Books\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2ababb7c63a94ff5d2190f71dc417d56\",\"name\":\"Carrie Cabral\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e9aea3c95254368e6bf388b046b35bacb82e4167f4c62c0813620e3a4ec51126?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e9aea3c95254368e6bf388b046b35bacb82e4167f4c62c0813620e3a4ec51126?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Carrie Cabral\"},\"description\":\"Carrie has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember, and has always been open to reading anything put in front of her. She wrote her first short story at the age of six, about a lost dog who meets animal friends on his journey home. Surprisingly, it was never picked up by any major publishers, but did spark her passion for books. Carrie worked in book publishing for several years before getting an MFA in Creative Writing. She especially loves literary fiction, historical fiction, and social, cultural, and historical nonfiction that gets into the weeds of daily life.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/author\/carrie\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave - Shortform Books","description":"Who is Charles Monet the Ebola patient? In 1980, Charles Monet contracted Ebola after visiting Kitum Cave. Here's what happened.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave","og_description":"Who is Charles Monet the Ebola patient? In 1980, Charles Monet contracted Ebola after visiting Kitum Cave. Here's what happened.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/","og_site_name":"Shortform Books","article_published_time":"2020-09-24T17:30:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-09-27T19:15:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wordpress.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Carrie Cabral","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Carrie Cabral","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/"},"author":{"name":"Carrie Cabral","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2ababb7c63a94ff5d2190f71dc417d56"},"headline":"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave","datePublished":"2020-09-24T17:30:33+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-27T19:15:37+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/"},"wordCount":894,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg","keywords":["The Hot Zone"],"articleSection":["Health","People"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/","name":"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave - Shortform Books","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2020-09-24T17:30:33+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-27T19:15:37+00:00","description":"Who is Charles Monet the Ebola patient? In 1980, Charles Monet contracted Ebola after visiting Kitum Cave. Here's what happened.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/charles-monet-ebola\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Charles Monet: Ebola Patient Gets Virus From Cave"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/","name":"Shortform Books","description":"The World&#039;s Best Book Summaries","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Shortform Books","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png","width":500,"height":74,"caption":"Shortform Books"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2ababb7c63a94ff5d2190f71dc417d56","name":"Carrie Cabral","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e9aea3c95254368e6bf388b046b35bacb82e4167f4c62c0813620e3a4ec51126?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e9aea3c95254368e6bf388b046b35bacb82e4167f4c62c0813620e3a4ec51126?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Carrie Cabral"},"description":"Carrie has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember, and has always been open to reading anything put in front of her. She wrote her first short story at the age of six, about a lost dog who meets animal friends on his journey home. Surprisingly, it was never picked up by any major publishers, but did spark her passion for books. Carrie worked in book publishing for several years before getting an MFA in Creative Writing. She especially loves literary fiction, historical fiction, and social, cultural, and historical nonfiction that gets into the weeds of daily life.","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/author\/carrie\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/charles-monet-hot-zone-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15706,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476\/revisions\/15706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}