{"id":7025,"date":"2010-05-06T22:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T22:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2010-06-24T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:32:55","slug":"borders-book-festival-where-words-come-alive%e2%80%94jackie-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7025","title":{"rendered":"Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive\u2014Jackie Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordersbookfestival.org\/programme\/index.php?view=details&amp;id=52:jackie-kay&amp;option=com_eventlist\" target=\"_blank\">Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive\u2014Jackie Kay<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harmony Marquee<br \/>\nMelrose, Scotland<br \/>\n2010-06-20, 20:30 BST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p>Published only days before the festival, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7023\" target=\"_blank\">Red Dust Road<\/a><\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/staff\/profile\/jackie.kay\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Kay<\/a>\u2019s autobiographical journey.\u00a0 Adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists, Jackie has never thought of anyone else as her \u2018real\u2019 parents, but meeting her birth father and mother was nevertheless revelatory. This is a wonderfully written, emotional book about biology and destiny, strangers and family, belonging and belief.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordersbookfestival.org\/programme\/index.php?view=details&amp;id=52:jackie-kay&amp;option=com_eventlist\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive\u2014Jackie Kay Harmony Marquee Melrose, Scotland 2010-06-20, 20:30 BST (Local Time) Published only days before the festival, Red Dust Road is Jackie Kay\u2019s autobiographical journey.\u00a0 Adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists, Jackie has never thought of anyone else as her \u2018real\u2019 parents, but meeting her birth father and mother was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,10,25],"tags":[2919,1587],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveevents","category-new-media","category-uk","category-women","tag-borders-book-festival","tag-jackie-kay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","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=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}