{"id":5117,"date":"2012-04-20T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2012-04-20T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:39:32","slug":"dont-be-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2012\/04\/dont-be-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/dont-be-afraid\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Dont-Be-Afraid.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,1057\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Don&#039;t Be Afraid\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Dont-Be-Afraid-198x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Dont-Be-Afraid-678x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5123\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2012\/04\/Dont-Be-Afraid-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Don\u2019t Be Afraid cover\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Dont-Be-Afraid-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Dont-Be-Afraid-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Dont-Be-Afraid-624x942.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Dont-Be-Afraid.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>by Steven Hayward, <em>CC English professor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be Afraid\u201d is a darkly comic novel of adolescent anxiety featuring Jim Morrison \u2014 not the lead singer of The Doors who died in 1971, but a chubby 17-year-old living in Ohio. This Jim Morrison was born days after the singer\u2019s death, and Jimmy has been living\u00a0a largely invisible life, overshadowed by his\u00a0older brother and stern father. When the brother dies, the family\u2019s life is upended and any sense of normalcy is destroyed. Hayward collaborated with Brad Limov \u201912 in the making of a <a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHbns6sJNs0?rel=0&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=360&amp;width=694\">video trailer<\/a>, marking the fact the book is now available in paperback.<\/p>\n<p><em>ISBN-13: 978-0676977363. Published by Knopf Canada, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Steven Hayward, CC English professor \u201cDon\u2019t be Afraid\u201d is a darkly comic novel of adolescent anxiety featuring Jim Morrison \u2014 not the lead singer of The Doors who died in 1971, but a chubby 17-year-old living in Ohio. This Jim Morrison was born days after the singer\u2019s death, and Jimmy has been living\u00a0a largely&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2012","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}