{"id":625,"date":"2014-02-22T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:39:27","slug":"book-giveaway-six-more-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"BOOK GIVEAWAY: Six More Days!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ONIYtvkXx54\/UwfyUt7c2lI\/AAAAAAAAEiU\/ufymVQCEmYw\/s1600\/rosa+parks+stamp.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rosa-parks-stamp.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>Last February 4th, Rosa Parks would have been 100 years old. When they unveiled the new stamp in her honor last year, I got a little joy from seeing the word COURAGE in all-caps next to the blown-up image of her face as painted by Thomas Blackshear II. Courage, indeed. Of the many &#8220;faces&#8221; of the Civil Rights movement, Rosa Parks &#8211; humble, unpolished, and <i>not at all tired<\/i>, thank you very much, is one of my favorites. Gracious and beautiful, she was often the recipient of letters from children and young adults, and she answered them  &#8212; with the seriousness they deserved.<\/p>\n<p>Not only can you win a copy of the book of collected letters, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leeandlow.com\/2014\/02\/12\/giveaway-win-a-book-signed-by-rosa-parks\/\" target= _blank><b>YOU CAN WIN A SIGNED COPY<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every February, LEE &#038; LOW hosts a giveaway to celebrate Black History Month. This year, we continue to honor Black History Month by offering our biggest giveaway yet: two chances to win a copy of Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today\u2019s Youth, signed by Rosa Parks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Dl8D6tFRp1o\/UwfzF3394OI\/AAAAAAAAEic\/l6BmuL4u4Is\/s1600\/Mrs+Parks.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mrs-Parks.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Six more days. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leeandlow.com\/2014\/02\/12\/giveaway-win-a-book-signed-by-rosa-parks\/\" target= _blank>Go.<\/a> Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last February 4th, Rosa Parks would have been 100 years old. When they unveiled the new stamp in her honor last year, I got&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,18],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-news","tag-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}