{"id":41397,"date":"2017-06-27T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41397"},"modified":"2017-07-17T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T01:47:15","slug":"happy-birthday-2-ya-paul-laurence-dunbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41397","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday 2 Ya &#8220;Paul Laurence Dunbar&#8221; Poet &#038; Playwright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=41398\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41398\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pail-laurence-dunbar-560x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pail-laurence-dunbar-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pail-laurence-dunbar-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pail-laurence-dunbar.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>American poet, novelist, and playwright <strong>Paul\u00a0Laurence Dunbar<\/strong>, born June 27, 1872, was one of the first African-American writers to establish an international reputation. He wrote the lyrics for the musical comedy <strong>In Dahomey<\/strong> (1903), the first all-African-American musical produced on Broadway.\u00a0His first collection of short stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Folks-Classic-Reprint-Laurence-Dunbar\/dp\/1331259789\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1498497825&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=folks+from+dixie\"><strong>Folks From Dixie<\/strong><\/a> (1898), was an examination of racial prejudice.\u00a0Dunbar wrote much of his work in conventional English, while using <a title=\"African American Vernacular English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_American_Vernacular_English\">African-American dialect<\/a> for some of it, as well regional dialects.\u00a0<strong>Maya Angelou<\/strong> titled her autobiography, <em>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/em> (1969), from a line in Dunbar&#8217;s poem <em>Sympathy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American poet, novelist, and playwright Paul\u00a0Laurence Dunbar, born June 27, 1872, was one of the first African-American writers to establish an international reputation. He wrote the lyrics for the musical comedy In Dahomey (1903), the first all-African-American musical produced on Broadway.\u00a0His first collection of short stories, Folks From Dixie (1898), was an examination of racial [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[3234,7416,58,7415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41401,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41397\/revisions\/41401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}