{"id":135228,"date":"2020-03-08T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/08\/noughts-crosses-author-hits-back-at-race-bait-claims\/"},"modified":"2020-03-08T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T00:15:00","slug":"noughts-crosses-author-hits-back-at-race-bait-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=135228","title":{"rendered":"Noughts &amp; Crosses author hits back at race-bait claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malorie Blackman responds on Twitter after Daily Mail critic calls drama \u2018less a TV show than a political statement\u2019The author of Noughts &amp; Crosses has defended her story against allegations that she is feeding racial division in Britain. Related: \u2018For casting purposes I was born in the wrong skin\u2019 \u2013 Noughts and Crosses star Paterson Joseph Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/mar\/07\/noughts-crosses-malorie-blackman-daily-mail-critic-race-bait\" target=\"_blank\">Noughts &amp; Crosses author hits back at race-bait claims<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malorie Blackman responds on Twitter after Daily Mail critic calls drama \u2018less a TV show than a political statement\u2019The author of Noughts &amp; Crosses has defended her story against allegations that she is feeding racial division in Britain. Related: \u2018For casting purposes I was born in the wrong skin\u2019 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}