{"id":7820,"date":"2016-02-19T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7820"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:55:07","slug":"in-the-popular-collection-lies-we-tell-ourselves-by-robin-talley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/in-the-popular-collection-lies-we-tell-ourselves-by-robin-talley\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Popular Collection: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/02\/PopReads_Lies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7822\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/02\/PopReads_Lies.jpg\" alt=\"PopReads_Lies\" width=\"179\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s 1959 in Virginia when the lives of two girls from opposite sides of the civil rights movement change forever.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah is one of the first black students at a previously all-white high school. An obvious outsider, she experiences constant bullying and is put in remedial classes despite her high scholarship. Linda, on the other hand, is the daughter of one of the town\u2019s most outspoken opponents of school integration. All her life, she\u2019s been taught that \u201cseparate but equal\u201d is the only way.<\/p>\n<p>Talley\u2019s novel is bold and honest, forcing readers to assess their own truths regarding race, power, and inequality. Check it out today from the Popular Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 1959 in Virginia when the lives of two girls from opposite sides of the civil rights movement change forever. Sarah is one of the first black students at a previously all-white high school. An obvious outsider, she experiences constant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/in-the-popular-collection-lies-we-tell-ourselves-by-robin-talley\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7823,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions\/7823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}