{"id":555,"date":"2017-08-24T21:21:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T04:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2020-09-09T21:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T04:51:35","slug":"born-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/2017\/08\/24\/born-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Born A Crime&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29780253-born-a-crime\">Born A Crime &#8211; Trevor Noah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My husband is an avid fan of &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; and after his recommendation, I thought I would try reading Trevor Noah&#8217;s memoir. \u00a0We don&#8217;t always like the same books, but this did not disappoint. \u00a0Many people think of comedians as being happy go lucky people who eventually rise to stardom when they make it on late night television. \u00a0Trevor&#8217;s path to success was far from easy. \u00a0Growing up in post-apartheid South Africa, he not only experienced racism and poverty, but would eventually go on to become involved in black market crime and see the reality of life in jail. \u00a0With the love of his mother, he recounts the pitfalls of growing up and his search to find his true sense of self.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1473867911l\/29780253.jpg\" alt=\"Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood\" width=\"115\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born A Crime &#8211; Trevor Noah My husband is an avid fan of &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; and after his recommendation, I thought I would try reading Trevor Noah&#8217;s memoir. \u00a0We don&#8217;t always like the same books, but this did not disappoint. \u00a0Many people think of comedians as being happy go lucky people who eventually rise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/2017\/08\/24\/born-a-crime\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Born A Crime&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/dangelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}