{"id":4373,"date":"2016-08-24T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:06:33","slug":"values-day-common-r-e-a-d-americanah-by-chimanda-ngozi-adichies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2016\/08\/4373\/","title":{"rendered":"Values Day Common R.E.A.D: Americanah by\u00a0Chimanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Values Day: September 20, 2016<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Values Day, celebrated in September, is an annual tradition established by Stetson University&#8217;s eighth president, H. Douglas Lee. It\u00a0is a day dedicated to Stetson University&#8217;s\u00a0core values of personal growth, intellectual development and global citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/other\/values-day\/planning-committee.php\">Values Day Planning Committee<\/a> has selected\u00a0Chimanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s powerful and award-winning book <em>Americanah<\/em> (2013) for a common R.E.A.D (Read Engage and Discuss;\u00a0Reflect, Engage &amp; Affirm Diversity) on September 20th, 12:30 PM &#8211; 1:45 PM. \u00a0For more information, including how to get your copy of the book read the announcement at Stetson Announce!.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Values Day: September 20, 2016 Values Day, celebrated in September, is an annual tradition established by Stetson University&#8217;s eighth president, H. Douglas Lee. It\u00a0is a day dedicated to Stetson University&#8217;s\u00a0core values of personal growth, intellectual development and global citizenship. This year, the\u00a0Values Day Planning Committee has selected\u00a0Chimanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s powerful and award-winning book Americanah (2013) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,78],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-excellence","tag-inclusive-excellence","tag-values-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7638,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}