{"id":37152,"date":"2016-01-08T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37152"},"modified":"2016-01-08T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:45:21","slug":"diaspora-inter-crossings-speaker-series-continues-jan-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/01\/diaspora-inter-crossings-speaker-series-continues-jan-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaspora Inter-Crossings Speaker Series continues Jan. 12."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Diaspora Inter-Crossings Speaker Series will kick off 2016 with a visit from Jamaican Canadian author Pamela Mordecai.<\/p>\n<p>Mordecai will speak about plotting real space and real time in her 2015 novel, <em>Red Jacket<\/em>, which has been shortlisted for the Rogers Writer\u2019s Trust Fiction Prize.<\/p>\n<p>The novel follows characters moving between Africa, the Caribbean and North America while their private lives play out against the context of the major natural, geo-political and social events of the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place Tuesday, Jan. 12 in the Sankey Chamber from noon to 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Diaspora Inter-Crossings Speaker Series will kick off 2016 with a visit from Jamaican Canadian author Pamela Mordecai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37153,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37152\/revisions\/37153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}