{"id":1543,"date":"2013-04-17T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2013-04-17T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:03:18","slug":"2013-pulitzer-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"2013 Pulitzer Prize…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>…Winner, Gilbert King was an honored guest and speaker at our Bookworm Book Club meeting yesterday at the Bacall Rec. Center.\u00a0 What a wonderful opportunity it was to meet him less than 24 hours after finding out he had won this coveted award.\u00a0 His humble excitement really lit up the room, and you would have thought all of us attending had won the prize too.\u00a0 It had been planned for many months that he would attend our April meeting and discuss his new\u00a0book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a new America.\u00a0 It is a chronicle of racial injustice that took place in 1949 Lake\u00a0County, our back yard,\u00a0a case of four black citrus workers accused of raping a 17 year old girl.\u00a0 It was a very violent and sad story, but also a story about the bravery of a young NAACP Attorney from\u00a0New York, \u00a0Thurgood Marshall, who despite horrific threats took the case to the Supreme Court. This was long before he himself became a Supreme Court Justice. \u00a0\u00a0Our tireless Chairwoman Kathy always goes the extra mile to make our meetings interesting, but yesterday she provided a meeting with a cherry on top.\u00a0 Kathy had reached out to\u00a0Gilbert King\u00a0many months ago and had numerous conversations with him.\u00a0 He said he would be attending the Book Fair at the University of Central Florida in April and perhaps could come then. Once he said yes, she then asked him if he could stay and do another meeting at night, which he\u00a0agreed to do. \u00a0\u00a0On Monday, as many of us were finishing up reading the book,\u00a0Gilbert King said he was having lunch with a friend\u00a0he had had\u00a0since 7th grade, when he got a text…Dude Pulitzer Prize.\u00a0 He continued to read the text about his friend who had won for Non-fiction, and in his excitement for his friend did not realize his name was also there.\u00a0 When he saw\u00a0his name\u00a0he thought this has to be a joke.\u00a0 But it wasn’t.\u00a0 As I mentioned earlier\u00a0he was speaking to us less than 24 hours after learning this life changing news, and you could feel that he still was reeling from it.\u00a0 He was asked what\u00a0does it mean to you\u00a0to win the Pulitzer, and he said he was not sure, but\u00a0said he was reminded of a comment an actor made after winning the Oscar, and that was…maybe now I can get a job.\u00a0 Congratulations Gilbert King, and congratulations Kathy, what a thrill it must have been for you to learn you had garnered a Pulitzer Prize winner for all of us to meet, and even have lunch with. \u00a0 If there were Pulitzer Prizes for Book Club Chairwoman, Kathy would win hands down.\u00a0 What a gift you gave us..thank you so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…Winner, Gilbert King was an honored guest and speaker at our Bookworm Book Club meeting yesterday at the Bacall Rec. Center.\u00a0 What a wonderful opportunity it was to meet him less than 24 hours after finding out he had won this coveted award.\u00a0 His humble excitement really lit up the room, and you would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}