{"id":2688,"date":"2013-07-09T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/07\/09\/a-literary-dream-come-true-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:39:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:39:46","slug":"a-literary-dream-come-true-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-literary-dream-come-true-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A literary dream come true"},"content":{"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<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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","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=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}