{"id":34,"date":"2023-08-01T21:57:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/connect\/?p=34"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:06:49","slug":"my-true-story-by-chereze-booysen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/my-true-story-by-chereze-booysen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My True Story&#8221; by Chereze Booysen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.66.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.66.jpg 260w, https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.66-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cMy True Story: Prose &amp; Poetry\u201d spoils the reader with one long prose-poem, almost 70 individual poems, a thorough and insightful background section, many assignments for poetry students and teachers, and a supplement about the father\u2019s prolonged struggle to seek justice and rebuild his professional reputation, tarnished by rivals within the educational system..<\/p>\n<p>Chereze Salome Booysen\u2019s distinctive poetic and prosaic writing style, along with her visions for educational reform and heartfelt loyalty towards her family, makes this book relevant regardless of one\u2019s religious orientation.<\/p>\n<p>Published by Novelty Fiction on August 1 + 16, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Available in paperback and Kindle format via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CD91NDXB\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview \u201cMy True Story: Prose &amp; Poetry\u201d spoils the reader with one long prose-poem, almost 70 individual poems, a thorough and insightful background section, many assignments for poetry students and teachers, and a supplement about the father\u2019s prolonged struggle to seek justice and rebuild his professional reputation, tarnished by rivals within the educational system.. Chereze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","tag-chereze-booysen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}