{"id":10206,"date":"2018-02-25T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T01:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=10206"},"modified":"2018-02-28T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:22:24","slug":"michelle-obama-to-release-second-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/michelle-obama-to-release-second-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama to release second book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By AMANDA TORRES<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Becoming<em>,&#8221; <\/em>a memoir by former first lady Michelle Obama will be released on Nov. 13. After much anticipation, the announcement was made on Feb. 25 by Penguin Random House. &#8220;Becoming&#8221; will be published by Crown, an imprint at Penguin Random House. Crown obtained the rights to publish the memoir worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The New York Times, <\/em>Crown said that the memoir will touch on topics like Obama\u2019s experience in the White House, as a mother of two, on her campaign on public health and more.<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN <\/em>reported that Penguin Random House said that the Obama\u2019s memoir is &#8220;an unusually intimate reckoning from a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations &#8212; and whose story inspires us to do the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10209\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichelleObama\/status\/967809678578192385\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10209\" class=\" wp-image-10209\" src=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-25-at-8.17.42-PM-300x136.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Michelle Obama via Twitter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Obama said via her Twitter account that the memoir was a \u201cdeeply personal experience\u201d to her.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>The New York Times,<\/em> &#8220;Becoming&#8221; will be published in 24 languages.<\/p>\n<p>Read by Obama herself, audio versions will also be published. The former first lady will donate a million copies of the memoir to First Book, a nonprofit based in Washington. First\u00a0Book helps children get access to books and educational resources in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN <\/em>also included that Penguin Random House said that the memoir will sell for $32.50 in the U.S. When the release day comes around, Obama will promote <em>Becoming <\/em>through an international tour.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Obama\u2019s second book. &#8220;American Grown&#8221; was published in 2012. The book encourages healthy living and talks about the White House Kitchen Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AMANDA TORRES &#8220;Becoming,&#8221; a memoir by former first lady Michelle Obama will be released on Nov. 13. After much anticipation, the announcement was made on Feb. 25 by Penguin Random House. &#8220;Becoming&#8221; will be published by Crown, an imprint &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/michelle-obama-to-release-second-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[5,28,139],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amanda-torres","tag-celebrities","tag-media","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10216,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions\/10216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}