{"id":46636,"date":"2014-05-28T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=46636"},"modified":"2014-05-28T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:21:59","slug":"maya-angelou-passes-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=46636","title":{"rendered":"Maya Angelou Passes, At 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Angeloumaya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46637\" alt=\"Angeloumaya\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Angeloumaya.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) &#8211; Author and poet Maya Angelou (MY&#8217;-ah ANJ&#8217;-eh-loh), who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wake Forest University announced Angelou&#8217;s death in a news release Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She gained acclaim for her first book, her autobiography &#8220;I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,&#8221; making her one of the first African-American women to write a best-seller.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 1998, she directed the film &#8220;Down in the Delta&#8221; about a drug-wrecked woman who returns to the home of her ancestors in the Mississippi Delta.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She was the poet chosen to read at President Bill Clinton&#8217;s first inauguration in 1993. She wrote and read an original composition, &#8220;On the Pulse of Morning,&#8221; which became a million-seller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) &#8211; Author and poet Maya Angelou (MY&#8217;-ah ANJ&#8217;-eh-loh), who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wake Forest University announced Angelou&#8217;s death in a news release Wednesday. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46638,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46636\/revisions\/46638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}