{"id":35025,"date":"2024-11-05T21:16:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35025"},"modified":"2024-11-06T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T16:49:07","slug":"george-singleton-featured-on-sec-networks-truesouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/george-singleton-featured-on-sec-networks-truesouth\/","title":{"rendered":"George Singleton featured on SEC Network&#8217;s TrueSouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alumnus, award-winning writer and hot dog connoisseur George Singleton &#8217;80 was featured in season seven, episode six of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secsports.com\/truesouth\">TrueSouth,<\/a> an Emmy Award-winning show about Southern food, culture and people on the SEC Network. The show&#8217;s host, John T. Edge, a Singleton friend and fan, called the author of &#8220;The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs&#8221; the &#8220;best short story writer in the South, and maybe in the country. He&#8217;s certainly the funniest.&#8221; Edge and Singleton visit Holmes Hot Dogs in Spartanburg and Saxon\u2019s Hot Dogs in Abbeville and spend time at the Pickens County Flea Market, where Singleton flaunts his Furman loyalty wearing an &#8220;FU&#8221; hat.<\/p>\n<p>Singleton was featured in the spring 2024 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/up-close-george-singleton-finding-the-absurd-gets-harder\/\">Furman Magazine<\/a>. TrueSouth can be streamed through ESPN+ and Hulu. A subscription might be required.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Singleton &#8217;80 is an award-winning author and an expert on gas station hot dogs across the Upstate of South Carolina. He shares his favorites with John T. Edge on TrueSouth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":35030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,3110],"tags":[270,3111],"class_list":["post-35025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-truesouth","tag-alumni","tag-george-singleton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35032,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025\/revisions\/35032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}