{"id":1258,"date":"2010-07-11T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T07:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2010-06-19T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T07:25:00","slug":"11th-july-1960-50-years-today-harper-lee-releases-critically-acclaimed-kill-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/11th-july-1960-50-years-today-harper-lee-releases-critically-acclaimed-kill-mockingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"11th July 1960 (50 years ago today) Harper Lee releases her critically acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author, best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007…[more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author, best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007…[more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1980,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/50-years-11-jul-1960-harper-lees-kill-mockingbird-published\/","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":0},"title":"50 years ago (11 Jul 1960) Harper Lee\u2019s novel \u2018To Kill a Mockingbird\u2019 was published","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"July 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. 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