{"id":9296,"date":"2022-01-30T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2022-01-30T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T01:50:13","slug":"9296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9296","title":{"rendered":"A WRITER WHO HAUNTS YOU&#8230;IN IMPORTANT WAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Classics)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_LgtIFgTKO6bWmy&#038;asin=0807006238&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baldwin&#8217;s writing lingers because it is haunted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His essay on his troubled father kept me up one night. He is describing terribly important things, but Baldwin is one of those gifted and visceral writers. I\u2019m glad to have read him but he does haunt the reader to wrestle with difficult truths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m sad that he never could find compelling resources in Christianity.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baldwin&#8217;s writing lingers because it is haunted. His essay on his troubled father kept me up one night. He is describing terribly important things, but Baldwin is one of those gifted and visceral writers. I\u2019m glad to have read him but he does haunt the reader to wrestle with difficult truths. I&#8217;m sad that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,158,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review","category-prejudice-racism","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}