{"id":4851,"date":"2016-02-21T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2016-02-21T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T13:32:24","slug":"harper-lee-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/harper-lee-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper Lee passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/harper-lee-passes-away\/harper-lee\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4852\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/harper-lee.jpeg\" alt=\"harper lee\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/harper-lee.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/harper-lee-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/harper-lee-190x114.jpeg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/harper-lee-280x168.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/harper-lee-445x267.jpeg 445w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/harper-lee-600x360.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child&#8217;s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird,&#8221; became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, has died.<\/li>\n<li>To Kill a Mockingbird,&#8221; published in 1960, is the story of a girl nicknamed Scout growing up in a Depression-era Southern town. A black man has been wrongly accused of raping a white woman, and Scout&#8217;s father, the resolute lawyer Atticus Finch, defends him despite threats and the scorn of many.<\/li>\n<li>The book quickly became a best-seller.<\/li>\n<li>By 2015, its sales were reported by HarperCollins to be more than 40 million worldwide, making it one of the most widely read American novels of the 20th century.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cellphones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books,&#8221; she wrote.<\/li>\n<li>By 2014, she had given in to the digital age and allowed her novel to come out as an e-book, calling it &#8220;&#8216;Mockingbird&#8217; for a new generation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A new play adaptation of &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8221; will land on Broadway during the 2017-18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child&#8217;s-eye view of racial &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,33,35,34],"tags":[1802,386,1796,454,455],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","category-profesionalnews","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-bestseller","tag-ebg","tag-february-2016","tag-harper-lee","tag-to-kill-a-mockingbird","cat_731","cat_33","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}