{"id":3714,"date":"2016-06-22T19:59:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Butler-is-amazing"},"modified":"2016-06-22T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:59:29","slug":"butler-is-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/06\/22\/butler-is-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler is amazing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Butler is amazing. As I&#8217;ve remarked before, saying that she wrote about race is like saying that Jane Austen wrote about gender roles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Cheryl Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today Octavia E. Butler would have been sixty-nine years old. The world lost an extraordinary voice far too soon, but\u2014lucky for all us readers!\u2014she left us with so many amazing books! So we&#8217;re celebrating Ms. Butler&#8217;s birthday today (June 22nd) by putting the ebook editions of six of her best works on sale in the U.S. for just $3.99 each:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parable of the Sower: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28LD1ST\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/28LD1ST<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parable of the Talents: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28OdvPU\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/28OdvPU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloodchild: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28SDUKX\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/28SDUKX<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wild Seed: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28SEc4w\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/28SEc4w<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mind of My Mind: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28NkFn6\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/28NkFn6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lilith&#8217;s Brood\u2014a 3-book bundle: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28LKqnn\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/28LKqnn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Seed to Harvest\u2014a 4-book bundle\u2014is just $7.99!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28SDp3P\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/28SDp3P<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OctaviaButlerAuthor\/photos\/a.424200530935286.100221.415666998455306\/1186121691409829\/?type=3&amp;theater<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Butler is amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-and-representation","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}