{"id":42,"date":"2011-11-09T20:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2012-11-05T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:46:46","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/out-of-left-field\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind every great sports story is an equally fascinating human interest story. In <em>Out of Left F<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/files\/2011\/11\/Out-of-Left-Field-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/files\/2011\/11\/Out-of-Left-Field-cover-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/files\/2011\/11\/Out-of-Left-Field-cover-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/files\/2011\/11\/Out-of-Left-Field-cover-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/files\/2011\/11\/Out-of-Left-Field-cover.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><em>ield<\/em>, Rebecca Alpert follows the trail of intertwined histories that link the African-American and Jewish-American cultures across the one field that unites all Americans\u2014the baseball field. What she found was a story that confounds expectations and turns racial and ethnic preconceptions on their heads. \u201cJewish\u201d businessmen who weren\u2019t in fact Jewish, black players who were practicing Jews, and a profound solidarity between two ethnicities whose common history of oppression and diaspora put them on the \u201csame team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind every great sports story is an equally fascinating human interest story. In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert follows the trail of intertwined histories that link the African-American and Jewish-American cultures across the one field that unites all Americans\u2014the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/out-of-left-field\/about-the-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"parent":40,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/rebeccatalpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}