{"id":776,"date":"2011-05-27T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=776"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:40:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:40:54","slug":"the-color-of-water-a-black-mans-tribute-to-his-white-mother-by-james-mcbride-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Water: A Black Man&#8217;s Tribute to His White Mother  by James McBride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-785 size-full\" title=\"The Color of Water\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Color-of-Water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A black man and his 11 siblings were raised in predominately African American sections in the boroughs of New York by his white mother. \u00a0She didn\u2019t speak of her upbringing while the children were growing up. \u00a0Mr. McBride explores her past while recounting his childhood. This is an engrossing biography about race, religion and human nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black man and his 11 siblings were raised in predominately African American sections in the boroughs of New York by his white mother. \u00a0She didn\u2019t speak of her upbringing while the children were growing up. \u00a0Mr. McBride explores her past while recounting his childhood. This is an engrossing biography about race, religion and human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Color of Water: A Black Man&#8217;s Tribute to His White Mother  by James McBride<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-carol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}