{"id":1187,"date":"2014-01-10T04:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T04:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2014-01-10T04:01:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T04:01:12","slug":"author-of-blues-people-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/author-of-blues-people-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Author of <em>Blues People<\/em>  Dies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amiri Baraka, playwright, poet, activist, and author of <em>Blues People<\/em>, died on Thursday 9th January in Newark, New Jersey. He was 79 years old. May he Rest in Peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baraka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1191\" alt=\"Baraka\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baraka-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baraka-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baraka-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Amiri Baraka and his wife, Amina, at the 2012 concert of the Cicely Tyson School of the Performing Arts Jazz Band. Photo courtesy Ken Archer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See the following report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/10\/arts\/amiri-baraka-polarizing-poet-and-playwright-dies-at-79.html?hp&amp;_r=1\">Amiri Baraka Dies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amiri Baraka, playwright, poet, activist, and author of Blues People, died on Thursday 9th January in Newark, New Jersey. He was 79 years old. May he Rest in Peace. Amiri Baraka and his wife, Amina, at the 2012 concert of the Cicely Tyson School of the Performing Arts Jazz Band. Photo courtesy Ken Archer See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[211,239,5],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-diaspora","category-music","tag-amiri-baraka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4zx0X-j9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}