{"id":1513,"date":"2016-02-29T16:45:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:45:43","slug":"issa-rae-premieres-narrative-podcast-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/issa-rae-premieres-narrative-podcast-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Issa Rae Premieres Narrative Podcast \u201cFruit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ISSA-rae-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1514 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ISSA-rae-pic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ISSA rae pic\" width=\"343\" height=\"229\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1515 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fruit-pic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"fruit pic\" width=\"348\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Author: Amy Nicole<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issarae.com\/\">Issa Rae<\/a> since I watched her web series <a href=\"http:\/\/awkwardblackgirl.com\/\"><em>Awkward Black Girl<\/em><\/a> a few years back and it\u2019s amazing to see how much her career has grown in such a short period of time. Since the success of <em>Awkward Black Girl<\/em> she has gone on to produce and write several more web series\u2019, has written a book, and has recently partnered with HBO to produce a comedy series.<\/p>\n<p>Issa\u2019s newest project is a narrative podcast called \u201cFruit\u201d.\u00a0 The audio drama focuses on the life of a gay NFL player who tries to keep his sexual orientation private.\u00a0 During the podcast listeners will hear the story of a football player who is only indentified as X. Throughout each episode X will discuss his journey of self-discovery and sexual exploration. \u00a0The show will also follow the relationships that X has with his family, friends, and teammates and will reveal how those relationships affect his self-identity.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve recently started listening to the podcast and it is definitely an interesting show!\u00a0 Issa Rae\u2019s approach to telling a story in the form of a podcast is very unique and creative! \u00a0Fruit is available exclusively on the Howl premium service, available through a mobile app for iOS and Android and online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/howl.fm\/\">howl.fm<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also listen to the show on Issa Rae\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/actingrl112\">YouTube Channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/strongandelite.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/issa-rae-coming-to-a-tv-near-you\">Strong and Elite<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/movies\/hbo-orders-series-from-youtube-star-issa-rae\/\">Digital Trends<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Amy Nicole I\u2019ve been a fan of Issa Rae since I watched her web series Awkward Black Girl a few years back and it\u2019s amazing to see how much her career has grown in such a short period of time. Since the success of Awkward Black Girl she has gone on to produce and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/issa-rae-premieres-narrative-podcast-fruit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Issa Rae Premieres Narrative Podcast \u201cFruit\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[53,85,103,192,232,235,272,363,504],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-actor","tag-awkward-black-girl","tag-black-actress","tag-director","tag-films","tag-football","tag-issa-rae","tag-nfl","tag-web-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}