{"id":6937,"date":"2025-04-17T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:01:19","slug":"igeorge-foreman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2025\/04\/17\/igeorge-foreman\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Own Words: George Foreman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George Edward Foreman was an American professional boxer, businessman, minister, and author who passed away on March 21. Born in Marshall, Texas, and raised in Houston\u2019s Fifth Ward community, Foreman went on to become a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. Below are books that he\u2019s written in the TBP collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>BY GEORGE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE FOREMAN (DB 40645)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GEORGE FOREMAN&#8217;S GUIDE TO LIFE: HOW TO GET UP OFF THE CANVAS WHEN LIFE KNOCKS YOU DOWN (DB 57421)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GEORGE FOREMAN&#8217;S KNOCK-OUT-THE-FAT BARBECUE AND GRILLING COOKBOOK (BRE 00001)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Edward Foreman was an American professional boxer, businessman, minister, and author who passed away on March 21. Born in Marshall, Texas, and raised in Houston\u2019s Fifth Ward community, Foreman went on to become a two-time world heavyweight champion and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2025\/04\/17\/igeorge-foreman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,222,37,259],"tags":[956,55,4,9],"class_list":["post-6937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-lists","category-news-announcements","category-readers-advisory-2","category-texas","tag-george-foreman","tag-in-their-own-words","tag-reader-advisory","tag-readers-advisory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6957,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}