{"id":605,"date":"2009-11-08T21:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2009-11-08T21:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:48:37","slug":"the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/605","title":{"rendered":"The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-606\" title=\"the ring\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-ring.jpg?w=195\" alt=\"the ring\" width=\"156\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-ring.jpg 325w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-ring-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/>Pyron, Bobbie.\u00a0 <em>The Ring. <\/em>2009.\u00a0 253p.\u00a0 Westside Books, $15.95.\u00a0 (978-1-934813-09-6).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Angry to the point of self-destruction, 15-year-old Mardie loses her resentment of her \u201cperfect\u201d older brother, Michael, when she takes up boxing and then discovers that Michael is gay.\u00a0 Through her training to gain strategy and mental discipline in the ring, Mardie works through her emotional pain, her friend\u2019s rejection, and her parents\u2019 lack of understanding toward a sense of strength and fearlessness.\u00a0 Although the focus is on Mardie, her growing relationship with Michael after she finds that he is gay and her protective attitude toward him when he is bullied shows the importance of family unity around a young glbtq person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyron, Bobbie.\u00a0 The Ring. 2009.\u00a0 253p.\u00a0 Westside Books, $15.95.\u00a0 (978-1-934813-09-6). Angry to the point of self-destruction, 15-year-old Mardie loses her resentment of her \u201cperfect\u201d older brother, Michael, when she takes up boxing and then discovers that Michael is gay.\u00a0 Through her training to gain strategy and mental discipline in the ring, Mardie works through her [&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":[41,245],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-bobbie-pyron","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}