{"id":660,"date":"2012-09-02T00:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=660"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:49:50","slug":"year-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1960: <strong>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Harper Lee<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1636904~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harper Lee\u2019s only published work, <em>To Kill a Mockingbird,<\/em> has won numerous literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Addressing issues of race, social class, and prejudice, Lee tells the story of a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in the Deep South and the resulting court case. Narrated through a child\u2019s eyes, the story illustrates lessons of morality and social conscience \u2013 standing up for what you believe is right, even in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n<p>Published just as the American Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum, <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> is notable for its condemnation of racial inequality and for its sophisticated narrative style. Despite the moral lessons therein, this book has often been on banned book lists because of the use of racial epithets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Mockingbird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-661\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Mockingbird-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Mockingbird-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Mockingbird.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Mockingbird2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-662\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Mockingbird2-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Mockingbird2-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Mockingbird2.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1960: To Kill a Mockingbird Author\/Editor: Harper Lee Find it in Collins Library! Harper Lee\u2019s only published work, To Kill a Mockingbird, has won numerous literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Addressing issues of race, social class, and prejudice, Lee tells the story of a black man falsely accused of raping a white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1958-1967"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}