{"id":10066,"date":"2019-08-06T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:43:47","slug":"toni-morrison-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/06\/toni-morrison-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Morrison Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from AP (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/11910324b8c848af823a4b19a3e1bc7e\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from AP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World mourns the death of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By HILLEL ITALIE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vDOH1qi7L-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in \u201cBeloved,\u201d \u2033Song of Solomon\u201d and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends,\u201d the family announced. \u201cThe consummate writer who treasured the written word, whether her own, her students or others, she read voraciously and was most at home when writing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few authors rose in such rapid, spectacular style. She was nearly 40 when her first novel, \u201cThe Bluest Eye,\u201d was published. By her early 60s, after just six novels, she had become the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, praised in 1993 by the Swedish academy for her \u201cvisionary force\u201d and for her delving into \u201clanguage itself, a language she wants to liberate\u201d from categories of black and white. In 2012, Barack Obama awarded her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHer writing was not just beautiful but meaningful \u2014 a challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy,\u201d Obama wrote Tuesday on his Facebook page. \u201cShe was as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/11910324b8c848af823a4b19a3e1bc7e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at AP (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP World mourns the death of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in \u201cBeloved,\u201d \u2033Song of Solomon\u201d and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}