{"id":15322,"date":"2025-01-23T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/?post_type=story&#038;p=15322"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:17:02","slug":"esperanza-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/story\/esperanza-alvarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperanza Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Angel Alvarez suggested to his mother, Esperanza, that she write her autobiography, he was met with a response that we often hear at LifeBook Memoirs: that she felt her life had not been exceptional enough to warrant one.<\/p>\n\n<p>Each life is special, however, and Esperanza&#8217; memories are unique to her. She is also the custodian of a wealth of stories that her family were anxious to record. Angel gifted his mother a LifeBook project, and the resulting autobiography, <em>Hope<\/em>, has not stopped bringing joy to the family since its completion. It is even prompting the telling of yet more stories!<\/p>\n\n<p>With Esperanza&#8217;s autobiography completed, Angel sat down with LifeBook Memoirs co-founder Roy Mo\u00ebd to reflect on his mother&#8217;s experience of creating it.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<iframe title=\"LifeBook Memoirs Co-founder Roy Mo\u00ebd Interviews Angel Alvarez in Miami\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYKTuUn7nPU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div><\/figure>\r\n\n<p>Esperanza&#8217;s LifeBook, entitled\u00a0<em>Hope<\/em>, was completed in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See how the gift of a LifeBook captured a unique life story, sparking joy and inspiring more storytelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15329,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Gifter Testimonial: Angel Alvarez | LifeBook | Memoirs & Autobiographies","_seopress_titles_desc":"See how the gift of a LifeBook captured a unique life story, sparking joy and inspiring more storytelling.","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":""},"story-category":[235],"class_list":["post-15322","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","story-category-gifter-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/15322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"story-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-category?post=15322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}