{"id":10102,"date":"2023-07-26T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=10102"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:16:54","slug":"the-jeffersons-actress-marla-gibbs-92-to-release-memoir-next-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/the-jeffersons-actress-marla-gibbs-92-to-release-memoir-next-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Jeffersons&#8217; Actress Marla Gibbs, 92, To Release Memoir Next Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jeffersons-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10104\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jeffersons-copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jeffersons-copy-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jeffersons-copy-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jeffersons-copy-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The Jeffersons<\/em> actress Marla Gibbs, 92, is releasing her memoir in the fall of 2024. The book, \u201cIt\u2019s Never Too Late,\u201d will detail her journey from the South Side of Chicago to becoming a successful actress in Hollywood.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cMy hope is that my memoir will serve as an inspiration to those that continue to show me love and support,\u201d Gibbs said in a statement to AP on Wednesday. \u201cI believe no matter the challenges one faces, it is never too late to turn your life around or make a difference. I am grateful and I am ready to reveal the challenges I overcame as a way of service to those who wish to transform their tests into testimonies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s Never Too Late\u201d will be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers committed to Black stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jeffersons actress Marla Gibbs, 92, is releasing her memoir in the fall of 2024. The book, \u201cIt\u2019s Never Too Late,\u201d will detail her journey from the South Side of Chicago to becoming a successful actress in Hollywood.&nbsp; \u201cMy hope is that my memoir will serve as an inspiration to those that continue to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[32,31,1429],"class_list":["post-10102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-books","tag-books","tag-featured","tag-marla-gibbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}