{"id":153679,"date":"2025-09-19T05:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153679\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:27:07","slug":"ely-girl-writers-novel-is-now-in-her-own-local-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153679\/","title":{"rendered":"Ely girl writer&#8217;s novel is now in her own local library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hephzibah said she had always loved going to her local library, but when she was about eight years old, she became disappointed she did not see enough &#8220;books that have characters of minorities; characters of different backgrounds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because inside, black, Asian or ethnic minority people are not any different to anyone else and it&#8217;s just annoying that we&#8217;re not seen as equals,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luckily, she had always loved to write, scribbling ideas in notebooks, so she had a starting point for her first book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I decided that the [lead] should be a black girl, just to show others that anyone can be the main character, and I decided to name her Hephzibah because it&#8217;s not a very common name.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hephzibah said she had always loved going to her local library, but when she was about eight years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":["post-153679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}