{"id":16084,"date":"2021-03-18T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=16084"},"modified":"2021-03-13T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T19:14:23","slug":"good-books-a-man-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-books-a-man-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD BOOKS: A Man Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local activist and author Marlvis &#8220;Butch&#8221; Kennedy recently released his latest book, A Man like Me: My Journey to Manhood&#8230;And the Mistakes I Made Along the Way, because of his concern for the messages boys are receiving about the nature of manhood.<\/p>\n<p>Struggling to live up to unrealistic and often unhealthy expectations does young men a disservice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;All throughout my life I failed trying to live up to those expectations of manhood. I became the man that I am today because of the mistakes I made in my past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, who is the founder of Real Men Against Domestic Violence (REALMAD) hopes that his book will help young men respect women and be part of a movement to end violence against women in our society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;During my journey I learned of the strength and courage that women possess and became an advocate to reduce violence against them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GET THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"19618\" data-sku=\"9798697689172\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local activist and author Marlvis &#8220;Butch&#8221; Kennedy recently released his latest book, A Man like Me: My Journey to Manhood&#8230;And the Mistakes<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-books-a-man-like-me\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":16085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,34,2,28,10,518],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16088,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16084\/revisions\/16088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}