{"id":10553,"date":"2016-02-17T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=10553"},"modified":"2016-02-17T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:13:09","slug":"helenans-bio-of-rasta-boxer-released-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/02\/helenans-bio-of-rasta-boxer-released-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Helenan&#8217;s bio of Rasta boxer released this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10554\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-10554 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bramble.jpg\" alt=\"Bramble\" width=\"336\" height=\"517\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Livingstone Bramble in his prime.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Rasta in the Ring: The Life of Rastafarian Boxer Livingstone Bramble,&#8221; written by Last Best News contributor Brian D&#8217;Ambrosio, will be released this week by McFarland Press ($15.99 paperback).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bramble was\u00a0the fighter fans loved to hate. Born in the Caribbean, he was a lifelong believer in vegetarianism, marijuana and reggae, and he was a man who could campy, provocative, moving and exhilarating\u2014sometimes all in the same minute.<\/p>\n<p>As an Olympic hopeful, he came to the United States\u00a0from the Virgin Islands, in 1979, fought his way up through the streets of Passaic, N.J., and brought the image of the Rastafarian\u2014a faith developed in Jamaica in the 1930s\u2014into America\u2019s living room. He became a world champion, taking the title from Ray \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Mancini, possibly the most popular boxer in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the ring, Bramble&#8217;s\u00a0antics were over the top. He sparred in lavender ballet tights, shadow boxed to Bob Marley and the Wailers and took jazz classes at the Broadway Dance Center in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>His career burned and disintegrated rather quickly, however, and he retreated from the spotlight to an isolated lifestyle. In this provocative biography, <span class=\"il\">D<\/span>\u2019<span class=\"il\">Ambrosio, who lives in Helena,<\/span>\u00a0tracks down the self-proclaimed \u201csole Rasta prizefighter\u201d in the unlikeliest of places and deftly covers the saga of one of the most enigmatic figures in recent sporting history.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rasta in the Ring: The Life of Rastafarian Boxer Livingstone Bramble,&#8221; written by Last Best News contributor Brian D&#8217;Ambrosio, will be released this week by McFarland Press ($15.99 paperback).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":10554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3832,3837,3831,3833,3836,3835,3834],"class_list":["post-10553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-brian-damrosio","tag-jamaica","tag-livingstone-bramble","tag-mcfarland-press","tag-rastafarianism","tag-ray-mancini","tag-virgin-islands","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}