{"id":20895,"date":"2013-09-20T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=20895"},"modified":"2013-09-20T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:21:53","slug":"nappily-ever-after-by-trisha-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/nappily-ever-after-by-trisha-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nappily Ever After by Trisha Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nappily-ever-after.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20897\" alt=\"nappily ever after\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nappily-ever-after.jpg?resize=264%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nappily-ever-after.jpg?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nappily-ever-after.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>In\u00a0<strong><\/strong><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=thomas,%20trisha%20nappily%20ever%20after&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=bks&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\">Nappily Ever After<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the first book in\u00a0Trisha Thomas&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=thomas,%20trisha%20nappily&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=bks&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Nappily<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>series, introduces readers to Venus Johnson. \u00a0Venus seems to have it all &#8212; a beautiful house, a great job, a loving doctor boyfriend, and &#8220;good&#8221; straight, shiny hair &#8212; but she feels like something is missing. \u00a0When her boyfriend, Clint, once again brushes off her desire to get married, Venus decides that she needs to start making changes in her life.<\/p>\n<p>The first change she makes is cutting off all of her hair. \u00a0After spending most of her life in the solon having her hair chemically relaxed, she is sick of what she now sees as a painful, expensive waste. \u00a0This symbolic move of independence is important for Venus, who has always worked hard to reach the goals set by society. \u00a0She now has to fight against other&#8217;s expectations and make her own way.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring love triangles, misunderstandings, and sabotage, Venus&#8217; life is a ever changing soap opera. \u00a0Fans of Kimberla Lawson Roby and Benilde Little will want to pick up book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Nappily Ever After,\u00a0the first book in\u00a0Trisha Thomas&#8217; Nappily series, introduces readers to Venus Johnson. \u00a0Venus seems to have it all &#8212; a beautiful house, a great job, a loving doctor boyfriend, and &#8220;good&#8221; straight, shiny hair &#8212; but she feels like something is missing. \u00a0When her boyfriend, Clint, once again<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/nappily-ever-after-by-trisha-thomas\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[2352,408,2415,2416],"class_list":["post-20895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","tag-african-american","tag-romance","tag-urban-fiction","tag-washington-d-c"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5r1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20899,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions\/20899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}