{"id":9433,"date":"2023-01-16T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9433"},"modified":"2023-01-20T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:42:11","slug":"emmas-postcard-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9433","title":{"rendered":"Emma&#8217;s Postcard Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems fitting to celebrate the MLKing holiday with a new book by author and medical anthropologist Faith Mitchell, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Books\/E\/Emma-s-Postcard-Album\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Books\/E\/Emma-s-Postcard-Album\" target=\"_blank\">Emma&#8217;s Postcard Album<\/a><\/em>. The book features a collection of postcards sent and received by a young African-American woman between 1906 and 1910, set within their larger context, along with newspaper clippings and other archival material\u2014an unusual multiple-focus approach (visual\/written; intimate\/panoramic; memoir\/history) that will interest all ages. I include a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Books\/E\/Emma-s-Postcard-Album\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Books\/E\/Emma-s-Postcard-Album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University Press of Mississippi<\/a> website; it is also available from many online booksellers as well as our beloved local DC bookstore <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politics-prose.com\/book\/9781496843159\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politics-prose.com\/book\/9781496843159\" target=\"_blank\">Politics and Prose<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/EmmasPostcard3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"423\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/EmmasPostcard3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/EmmasPostcard3.jpg 423w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/EmmasPostcard3-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems fitting to celebrate the MLKing holiday with a new book by author and medical anthropologist Faith Mitchell, Emma&#8217;s Postcard Album. The book features a collection of postcards sent and received by a young African-American woman between 1906 and 1910, set within their larger context, along with newspaper clippings and other archival material\u2014an unusual<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9433\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,152],"tags":[9,66,202,153],"class_list":["post-9433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-design","category-photograph","tag-books","tag-history","tag-mississippi","tag-photography"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9440,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions\/9440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}