{"id":1057,"date":"2014-04-27T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2014-04-27T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T20:55:08","slug":"william-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/04-27-2014\/william-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"William Henry is a Fine Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slavery brings up a lot of opinions. Most people don&#8217;t have any direct information about what that time period was like. That can make it hard to picture what people went through. In <em>William Henry is a Fine Name<\/em>, Cathy Gohlke tells a story of a family that experienced both opinions on slavery. The son must now make a decision as to where he will stand.<\/p>\n<p>Though probably better suited to older kids, anyone who reads it can see lessons in the story. You can see acceptance, forgiveness, persecution, hatred, and love displayed in the characters.<\/p>\n<p>Robert is best friends with a colored boy, which doesn&#8217;t bother him or his father, but his mother is not thrilled with it. Robert sees blacks and whites both as people and doesn&#8217;t understand why many others don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>He begins to learn about both sides of slavery, abolitionists and slave owners. He sees what both sides gain, or lose, as a result of where they stand, and makes his choice.<\/p>\n<p>Robert works to makes friends, regardless of skin color, and stands up for what he believes in, even when it costs him dearly.<\/p>\n<p>Gohlke wrote a book that is easy to follow. Actually, I found it easy to get immersed in it. My attention was grabbed on the first page and I found it hard to stop reading. I was always wanting to find out what was going to happen next.<\/p>\n<p>I received a free copy of <em>William Henry is a Fine Name<\/em> from Moody Publishers in exchange for this review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slavery brings up a lot of opinions. Most people don&#8217;t have any direct information about what that time period was like. That can make it hard to picture what people went through. In William Henry is a Fine Name, Cathy Gohlke tells a story of a family that experienced both opinions on slavery. The son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}