{"id":9121,"date":"2017-02-17T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:17:56","slug":"how-would-it-feel-to-be-labeled-a-criminal-simply-for-being-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/how-would-it-feel-to-be-labeled-a-criminal-simply-for-being-born\/","title":{"rendered":"How would it feel, to be labeled a criminal, simply for being born?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/02\/CALLOUT_bornacrime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-9122 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/02\/CALLOUT_bornacrime-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"CALLOUT_bornacrime\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/02\/CALLOUT_bornacrime-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/02\/CALLOUT_bornacrime.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by prison, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man\u2019s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother\u2014his best friend, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out our newest novels in the Popular Reading Collection today!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by prison, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life. Born a Crime is the story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/how-would-it-feel-to-be-labeled-a-criminal-simply-for-being-born\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-fun-recommended-films-popular-reading","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","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\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}