{"id":7231,"date":"2016-01-28T18:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2016-01-28T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:03:34","slug":"judging-books-by-their-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2016\/01\/28\/judging-books-by-their-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Judging Books by Their Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I judge my books by their covers<\/div>\n<div>And I know that is wrong<\/div>\n<div>But put a book in front of me<\/div>\n<div>And it better make me want to read it<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That\u2019s why it\u2019s important<\/div>\n<div>To give everyone a picture of themselves<\/div>\n<div>And everyone a place to be<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Diversity is important<\/div>\n<div>In every form of media<\/div>\n<div>But in books<\/div>\n<div>Where imagination is key<\/div>\n<div>The cover changes everything<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So show me\u00a0<i>Brown Girl Dreaming<\/i><\/div>\n<div>And let me\u00a0<i>Hold Tight, Don\u2019t Let Go<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Let me read what\u2019s\u00a0<i>Written in the Stars<\/i><\/div>\n<div>And be with\u00a0<i>Little Princes<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Tell me how it is after\u00a0<i>A Long Way Gone<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Call me\u00a0<i>Bud, Not Buddy\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Let me feel the love of<i>\u00a0Two Boys Kissing<\/i><\/div>\n<div>And sit\u00a0<i>Under the Lights \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And let me find a new book to read<\/div>\n<div>With a cover that shows me all the magic<\/div>\n<div>Of this magically different world<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I judge my books by their covers And I know that is wrong But put a book in front of me And it better make me want to read it That\u2019s why it\u2019s important To give everyone a picture of themselves And everyone a place to be Diversity is important In every form of media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[938,937,936,935],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}