{"id":517,"date":"2009-10-29T22:21:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:21:57","slug":"finlater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/517","title":{"rendered":"Finlater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-518\" title=\"finlater\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/finlater.jpg?w=108\" alt=\"finlater\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>Ruff, Shawn  Stewart. <\/strong><strong><em>Finlater<\/em>.\u00a0 July 2008. 292 p. Quote Editions, $15.50 (978-1604023954). Gr. 9-12.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cliffy Douglas is  a 13-year-old African-American living in Cincinnati in the 1970\u2019s who becomes  friends with a Jewish schoolmate, Noah Baumgarten.\u00a0 As their  relationship develops, Cliffy and Noah begin a love affair that must navigate  their newfound sense of sexual identity, dysfunctional family situations, and  the racial and homophobic prejudices and dangers surrounding them.\u00a0  Despite the cultural and sexual intolerances they encounter, Cliffy and  Noah are carried through by their love for each other.\u00a0 A tender  and touching story told in sparse and raw language.\u00a0 <em>\u2013Victor Schill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruff, Shawn Stewart. Finlater.\u00a0 July 2008. 292 p. Quote Editions, $15.50 (978-1604023954). Gr. 9-12. Cliffy Douglas is a 13-year-old African-American living in Cincinnati in the 1970\u2019s who becomes friends with a Jewish schoolmate, Noah Baumgarten.\u00a0 As their relationship develops, Cliffy and Noah begin a love affair that must navigate their newfound sense of sexual identity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}