{"id":1417,"date":"2013-07-09T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/07\/09\/a-literary-dream-come-true\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:39:50","slug":"a-literary-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-literary-dream-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"A literary dream come true"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7222\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/shutterstock-books.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7222 lazyload\" title=\"shutterstock-books\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/shutterstock-books.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 227px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 227\/216;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ed Tarkington, a 1995 Furman graduate, is an English teacher and wrestling coach at Nashville\u2019s Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee. He will also soon be a published novelist. His first novel, <em>Only Love Can Break Your Heart<\/em>, is scheduled to be released by Algonquin Books in the spring of 2015. Tarkington, who graduated from Furman with a B.A. degree in English and philosophy, recently talked to Chapter 16, an online community of Tennessee writers, about what it means to have a literary dream come true.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapter16.org\/content\/chapter-16%E2%80%99s-own-ed-tarkington-lands-book-deal\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Tarkington, a 1995 Furman graduate, is an English teacher and wrestling coach at Nashville\u2019s Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee. He will also soon be a published novelist. His first novel,\u00a0<em>Only Love Can Break Your Heart<\/em>, is scheduled to be released by Algonquin Books in the spring of 2015. Tarkington, who graduated from Furman with a B.A. degree in English and philosophy, recently talked to Chapter 16, an online community of Tennessee writers, about what it means to have a literary dream come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}