{"id":182,"date":"2015-09-29T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/09\/29\/whos-your-literary-hero\/"},"modified":"2020-02-20T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:48:20","slug":"whos-your-literary-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/09\/29\/whos-your-literary-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Your Literary Hero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There are times when each of us feels overwhelmed or discouraged in our lives. In times of worry and uncertainty, I take refuge in the words of writers I admire.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of my literary heroes is James Baldwin, whose work can be explored through the <a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/search?q=james+baldwin&amp;dblist=638&amp;se=%24d&amp;sd=desc&amp;fq=ap%3A%22baldwin%2C+james%22&amp;qt=facet_ap%3A\" target=\"_blank\">library\u2019s catalog<\/a>, or through several hundred videos uploaded to YouTube, or many other resources available online.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I\u2019ve included here a Pacifica Radio Archives audio stream from \u201cThe Artist&#8217;s Struggle for Integrity,\u201d which was originally broadcast by WBAI Radio in New York City on November 29, 1962. It\u2019s well worth a listen in its entirety.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when each of us feels overwhelmed or discouraged in our lives. In times of worry and uncertainty, I take refuge in the words of writers I admire.&nbsp; One of my literary heroes is James Baldwin, whose work <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/09\/29\/whos-your-literary-hero\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Who\u2019s Your Literary Hero?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,285,287,282,283,286,1,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}