{"id":3409,"date":"2025-03-09T04:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T04:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsthescuddlebutt.com\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2025-03-09T04:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T04:29:47","slug":"video-author-dr-roger-newman-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/video-author-dr-roger-newman-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"(Video) Author Dr. Roger Newman &#8220;Boys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The What\u2019s The Scuttlebutt Podcast This week, we are joined by author Dr. Roger Newman to discuss his new novel, &#8220;Boys&#8221;. The book follows the story of Alex, a young Black boy who finds refuge on a dairy farm after his family is murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the Great Depression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The What\u2019s The Scuttlebutt Podcast with author Dr. Roger Newman &quot;Boys&quot;\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hsHcqdOWXrE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken in by the farm\u2019s White owners, Alex grows up alongside their son, Pete, and the two consider themselves brothers. Together, they navigate the harsh realities of Jim Crow-era racial intolerance in the South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The What\u2019s The Scuttlebutt Podcast This week, we are joined by author Dr. Roger Newman to discuss his new novel, &#8220;Boys&#8221;. The book follows the story of Alex, a young Black boy who finds refuge on a dairy farm after his family is murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the Great Depression. Taken in by the farm\u2019s White owners, Alex grows up alongside their son, Pete, and the two consider themselves brothers. Together, they navigate the harsh realities of Jim Crow-era racial intolerance in the South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}