{"id":243,"date":"2020-03-24T22:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/?p=243"},"modified":"2020-03-25T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:26:21","slug":"discussion-questions-3-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/2020\/03\/24\/discussion-questions-3-25-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions 3\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>In\u00a0<em>Color Struck\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>John Redding Goes to Sea<\/em>, issues\u00a0 arise which lead to marriages in the stories being unfulfilled. Are these failed marriages reflective of Hurston&#8217;s skepticism of Christianity or something else?<\/li>\n<li>Both stories end with the death of a child, but in opposite circumstances. John Redding dies after he leaves his family while Emma&#8217;s daughter dies when Emma is almost on the brink of creating a full family. Does Hurston believe the family unit itself is a flawed structure or does this go along with her ideas of Christian marriage?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Color Struck\u00a0and\u00a0John Redding Goes to Sea, issues\u00a0 arise which lead to marriages in the stories being unfulfilled. Are these failed marriages reflective of Hurston&#8217;s skepticism of Christianity or something else? Both stories end with the death of a child, but in opposite circumstances. John Redding dies after he leaves his family while Emma&#8217;s daughter dies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/2020\/03\/24\/discussion-questions-3-25-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discussion Questions 3\/25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429185,430054],"tags":[429830,146],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-questions","category-hurston","tag-march-25","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}