{"id":205816,"date":"2024-12-20T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=205816"},"modified":"2024-12-20T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:52:12","slug":"d-o-gibsons-first-childrens-book-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/d-o-gibsons-first-childrens-book-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"D.O. Gibson&#8217;s First Children&#8217;s Book is Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Canadian artist, <strong>D.O. Gibson<\/strong>, holder of the Guinness World Record for the longest freestyle (8 hours and 45 minutes), released his first children&#8217;s book! &#8220;The Story of How Young Duane Gibson Stayed Driven&#8221; is a semi-autobiographical story about dealing with the challenges of moving to a new town as a child, and finding a sublime outlet in Hip-Hop music. The book&#8217;s charming illustration was done by a Nigerian artist, <strong>Aminat Mahmoud<\/strong>. Alongside the book, a music video for D.O. Gibson&#8217;s children&#8217;s song, &#8220;Fred the Purple Unicorn&#8221; was released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Story of How Young Duane Gibson Stayed Driven&#8221; is available for purchase via<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Story-Young-Gibson-Stayed-Driven\/dp\/B0DN1C4YF8\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MOC764MNWTO9&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2BSJ44KjIA5t3keJgwCt0w.EdwuKkCNA6HPyUBqeMegE_yh_8bTdV2bfxyerlnj8VY&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+story+of+how+young+duane+gibson+stayed+driven&amp;qid=1731975308&amp;sprefix=the+story+of+how+young+duane+gibson+stayed+driven%2Caps%2C155&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NtHeNfrmy54?si=FEgy0oUVN9umtnsF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Canadian artist, D.O. Gibson, holder of the Guinness World Record for the longest freestyle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":205818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Duane-Gibson-Book-Thumbnail-scaled.webp?fit=2560%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-RxC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}