{"id":1689,"date":"2013-10-22T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/furman-alum-publishes-new-novel\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:56:07","slug":"furman-alum-publishes-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alum-publishes-new-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alum publishes new novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8735\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tommy-hays.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8735\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8735 lazyload\" alt=\"Tommy Hays\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tommy-hays.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"266\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 196px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 196\/266;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Hays<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tommy Hays graduated from Furman in 1977 with a degree in English, earned his master&#8217;s in fine arts from Warren Wilson, and now directs the Great Smokies Writing Program at University of North Carolina-Asheville. Each of his four novels are set in the Upstate or western North Carolina. His just published novel, <em>What I Came to Tell You<\/em>, is the first to be written specifically for middle grade readers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goupstate.com\/article\/20131022\/ENT\/131029916\/1088\/sports?Title=Hays-writes-about-Southern-people-&amp;tc=ar\"><strong>Read more in Spartanburg Herald-Journal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Hays graduated from Furman in 1977 with a degree in English, earned his master&#8217;s in fine arts from Warren Wilson, and now directs the Great Smokies Writing Program at University of North Carolina-Asheville. Each of his four novels are set in the Upstate or western North Carolina. His just published novel, <em>What I Came to Tell You<\/em>, is the first to be written specifically for middle grade readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","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=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}