{"id":370,"date":"2013-10-11T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T18:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-10-11T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T18:04:44","slug":"fall-2013-skyline-college-lecture-series-a-call-to-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/fall-2013-skyline-college-lecture-series-a-call-to-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2013 Skyline College Lecture Series A Call to Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/jimmy400px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-373 aligncenter\" alt=\"jimmy400px\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/jimmy400px-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Center for Student Life &amp; Leadership Development presents:<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Santiago Baca,<br \/>\naward winning poet and writer,<br \/>\nTuesday, October 15 at 12:30 p.m.<br \/>\nin the Theater, Building One.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us as Mr. Baca reads from his new book Singing at the Gates and discusses the upcoming documentary adaptation of his award winning memoirs, A Place to Stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis voice, brutal and unflinching is unique in America&#8230; one worth paying attention to.\u201d \u2013 The Nation<\/p>\n<p>Born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age 13, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison that he began to turn his life around: he learned to read and write and unearthed a voracious passion for poetry. He is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award and for his memoir A Place to Stand the prestigious International Award<\/p>\n<p>Other works by Jimmy Santiago Baca include:<br \/>\nA Place to Stand<br \/>\nA Glass of Water<br \/>\nMart\u00edn &amp; Meditations on the South Valley<br \/>\nAdolescents on the Edge<br \/>\nStories from the Edge<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Jimmy Santiago Baca visit <a title=\"jimmy baca site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmysantiagobaca.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.jimmysantiagobaca.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nAdditional information about the documentary film A Place to Stand is available online at <a title=\"a place to stand site\" href=\"http:\/\/aplacetostandmovie.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/aplacetostandmovie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/baca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-372\" alt=\"baca\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/baca-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Student Life &amp; Leadership Development presents: Jimmy Santiago Baca, award winning poet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}