{"id":5341,"date":"2023-12-07T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:46","slug":"benjamin-zephaniah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2023\/12\/07\/benjamin-zephaniah\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Zephaniah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sadly, Benjamin Zephaniah has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/dec\/07\/british-poet-benjamin-zephaniah-dies-aged-65\">passed away<\/a> at the age of 65.  We have <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.le.ac.uk\/primo-explore\/search?query=creator,contains,benjamin%20zephaniah,AND&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;search_scope=default_scope&amp;vid=44UOLE_NUI&amp;facet=rtype,include,books&amp;mode=advanced&amp;offset=0&amp;pcAvailability=false\">many of his books<\/a> in the library collection.  Why not read one in his memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, Benjamin Zephaniah has passed away at the age of 65. We have many of his books in the library collection. Why not read one in his memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,718],"tags":[567,796,93],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-english","tag-caribbean","tag-poetry","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5342,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}