{"id":42418,"date":"2015-08-27T00:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T00:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42418"},"modified":"2017-09-05T00:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T00:06:04","slug":"writer-jesmyn-ward-reflects-on-survival-since-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42418","title":{"rendered":"Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/writer-jesmyn-ward-reflects-survival-since-katrina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBS NewsHour<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-24<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/author\/gifill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwen Ifill<\/a><\/strong>, Co-Anchor &amp; Managing Editor<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tulane.edu\/liberal-arts\/english\/faculty\/jesmyn-ward.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesmyn Ward<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jesmimi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/g.twimg.com\/Twitter_logo_blue.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Katrina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Katrina<\/a> while staying at her grandmother\u2019s house, she wrote \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/salvage-the-bones-9781608195220\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salvage the Bones<\/a>,\u201d an award-winning novel about a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mississippi<\/a> family in the days leading up to the devastating storm. She joins Gwen Ifill to discuss how the storm affected the rural poor who could not escape, and now, who may not be able to return.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365551531\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/writer-jesmyn-ward-reflects-survival-since-katrina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina PBS NewsHour 2015-08-24 Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor &amp; Managing Editor Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived Hurricane Katrina while staying at her grandmother\u2019s house, she wrote \u201cSalvage the Bones,\u201d an award-winning novel about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13743,8,1459,20,842],"tags":[20839,5808,20138,19266],"class_list":["post-42418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-usa","category-videos","tag-gwen-ifill","tag-hurricane-katrina","tag-jesmyn-ward","tag-pbs-newshour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54882,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42418\/revisions\/54882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}