{"id":286813,"date":"2026-09-15T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286813\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:52:10","slug":"philadelphia-teen-publishes-book-to-inspire-children-with-a-stutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286813\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia teen publishes book to inspire children with a stutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia teen publishes book to inspire children with a stutter<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789512730_248_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Austin Boley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PHILADELPHIA \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A Philadelphia teenager has become a published author, using his personal experiences to inspire children with a stutter to embrace their challenges.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Mas&#8217;ood Holloman wrote and released his first children&#8217;s book, &#8220;Finding My Voice,&#8221; which highlights his journey growing up with a stutter. The book&#8217;s main character, who plays baseball like Holloman, learns to accept and embrace his speech disorder.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;We survive through kids&#8217; books. I stutter, and for the people who stutter just like me, it could inspire them to keep going. It just makes me proud of myself inside and that I actually wrote a book,&#8221; Holloman said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Holloman sets up a stand at a community market every Thursday to sell his book. He is also working on his second book, titled &#8220;The Young Voice of a Muslim.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia teen publishes book to inspire children with a stutter PHILADELPHIA \u2014 A Philadelphia teenager has become a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[119390,119391,119392,69,71,70,119394,119395,119393],"class_list":["post-286813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-15-year-old-philadelphia-teenager","tag-finding-my-voice","tag-masood-holloman","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-published-author","tag-stutter","tag-the-young-voice-of-a-muslim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}