{"id":1668,"date":"2021-11-17T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1668"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:44:39","slug":"clint-smith","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/speaker\/clint-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Clint Smith is a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic<\/em>. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, <em>How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America<\/em>, which was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is also the author of the poetry collection <em>Counting Descent, <\/em>which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1671,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-1668","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Staff Writer at The Atlantic and Author","speaker_last_name":"Smith","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1668\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}