{"id":3814,"date":"2012-06-11T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2012-06-11T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:11:56","slug":"first-readings-program-announces-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/first-readings-program-announces-book\/","title":{"rendered":"First Readings Program Has Announced This Year&#8217;s Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreadings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sonsofprovidence1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"409\" \/> This year&#8217;s First Readings book is <em>Sons of Providence <\/em>by\u00a0Charles Rappleye. Here are a few things of note about <em>Sons of Providence<\/em>\u00a0and the First Readings program.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The First Readings program provides first-year and transfer students with a common reading experience that introduces them to the pleasures and rigors of academic life at Brown University.<\/li>\n<li>This is the program&#8217;s sixth year.<\/li>\n<li>First Readings is sponsored by the Dean of the College and Brown Alumni Association.<\/li>\n<li>The library has <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreadings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created a website<\/a> to introduce new students to the resources available to them at the library.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sons of Providence,\u00a0<\/em>is the biography of John and Moses Brown, two brothers caught at opposite ends of the slavery issue in the early beginnings of colonial America.<\/li>\n<li>There will be frequent updates to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FirstReadings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@firstreadings<\/a> twitter feed.<\/li>\n<li>In mid-October,\u00a0Charles\u00a0Rappleye, author of<em>\u00a0Sons of Providence<\/em>,\u00a0will visit campus and speak to the first-year students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about the author, the brown family, early maps of Providence, or timelines <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreadings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s First Readings book is Sons of Providence by\u00a0Charles Rappleye. Here are a few things of note about Sons of Providence\u00a0and the First Readings program. The First Readings program provides first-year and transfer students with a common reading experience that introduces them to the pleasures and rigors of academic life at Brown University. This <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/first-readings-program-announces-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  First Readings Program Has Announced This Year&#8217;s Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}