{"id":2743,"date":"2013-10-22T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/furman-alum-publishes-new-novel-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:56:03","slug":"furman-alum-publishes-new-novel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alum-publishes-new-novel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alum publishes new novel"},"content":{"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,\u00a0<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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}