{"id":462099,"date":"2026-09-13T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462099\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:02:14","slug":"j-a-gray-cal-alumni-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462099\/","title":{"rendered":"J. A. Gray &#8211; Cal Alumni Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">J. A. Gray \u201972 grew up in Berkeley (and lives here still), and he remains ever grateful to Cal (\u201cthe university next door\u201d) for providing him with two years in the Tussman Experimental College Program, followed by two years of Classical studies in Latin and Greek (\u201cGreat teachers were the rule at Cal, not the exception\u201d). A professional writer-for-hire, John is now also a novelist. His debut novel, Mr. Prynne, is published by Wiseblood Books. Does the titular male\u2019s name sound familiar? Yes, this is the aged husband of young Hester Prynne, she of the scarlet letter and the fatherless daughter, little Pearl. For 175 years, Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s tale of these Bostonians and their troubles has been the standard story. But, ah\u2014there is so much more to tell! And the author at <a href=\"https:\/\/jagray.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jagray.net<\/a> has told it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J. A. Gray \u201972 grew up in Berkeley (and lives here still), and he remains ever grateful to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-462099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}