{"id":478,"date":"2022-09-28T16:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=478"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:42:14","slug":"juyanne-james-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2017\/juyanne-james-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Juyanne James"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/jjames_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/covers\/persimmontrail_lg.jpg\" alt=\"persimmontrail sm\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Juyanne James tells tales of her native South Louisiana in her debut collection, <em>The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories,<\/em> which <em>The<\/em> <em>New Orleans Review<\/em> has praised as \u201cimmersed in rich, lush Southern settings, rural and urban.\u201d&nbsp;Srong African American women and &nbsp;families inhabit this collection, each on their own journey, much like James, who grew up on a farm, joined the navy at 17, and eventually returned to New Orleans to teach English at Our Lady of Holy Cross College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}