{"id":4151,"date":"2013-03-22T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T18:25:24","slug":"4151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/22\/4151\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/chinua-achebe-has-died_b67422\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from MediaBistro&#8217;s GalleyCat<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Chinua Achebe Has Died<\/h1>\n<div>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/author\/jasonboog\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Boog<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385474547?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bigjimind-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0385474547\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71qLnZuj5SL._SL1219_.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The\u00a0Nigerian novelist\u00a0<strong>Chinua Achebe<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/23\/world\/africa\/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">has passed away<\/a>. He was 82 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Achebe wrote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/411\/things-fall-apart-by-chinua-achebe\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Things Fall Apart<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 1958, his first novel and also his most well-known book. He also wrote\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/397\/anthills-of-the-savannah-by-chinua-achebe\" target=\"_blank\">Anthills of the Savannah<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/398\/arrow-of-god-by-chinua-achebe\" target=\"_blank\">Arrow of God<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0and many other books. As a poet, he also released his\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/400\/collected-poems-by-chinua-achebe\" target=\"_blank\">Collected Poems<\/a><\/em>. Exiled by civil war and politics, he spent many years teaching in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/chinua-achebe-has-died_b67422\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at GalleyCat<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MediaBistro&#8217;s GalleyCat Chinua Achebe Has Died By\u00a0Jason Boog The\u00a0Nigerian novelist\u00a0Chinua Achebe\u00a0has passed away. He was 82 years old. Achebe wrote\u00a0Things Fall Apart\u00a0in 1958, his first novel and also his most well-known book. He also wrote\u00a0Anthills of the Savannah,\u00a0Arrow of God,\u00a0and many other books. As a poet, he also released his\u00a0Collected Poems. Exiled by civil [&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-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","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=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}