{"id":6545,"date":"2010-07-11T14:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T14:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/07\/to-kill-a-mockingbird.html"},"modified":"2010-07-11T14:08:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T14:08:27","slug":"to-kill-a-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/07\/to-kill-a-mockingbird.html","title":{"rendered":"To Kill a Mockingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/HarperLee-16280.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/HarperLee-thumb-333x325-16280.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"325\" alt=\"HarperLee.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>The novel, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061743526?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0061743526\">To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061743526\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>, is 50 years old now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks to my friend, Karen, who posted <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/live\/2010\/07\/to_kill_a_mockingbird_gets_a_5.html\">this link<\/a><\/b>, I&#8217;m about to sit down to read the novel again as well as the baffling biography, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001GQ3DTM?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001GQ3DTM\">Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001GQ3DTM\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Harper Lee remains a recluse so anyone who even tries to write her biography has an uphill battle &#8212; all the way.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition , is 50 years old now.&nbsp; Thanks to my friend, Karen, who posted this link, I&#8217;m about to sit down to read the novel again as well as the baffling biography, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee .&nbsp; Harper Lee remains a recluse so anyone who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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