{"id":35662,"date":"2024-12-18T16:18:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35662"},"modified":"2024-12-18T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:20:40","slug":"morris-talks-about-her-latest-novel-on-podcast-now-appalachia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/morris-talks-about-her-latest-novel-on-podcast-now-appalachia\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris talks about her latest novel on podcast &#8216;Now, Appalachia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An active shooter training session with Furman University Police led to Laura Leigh Morris&#8217; latest novel, &#8220;The Stone Catchers.&#8221; Morris, an associate professor of English at Furman, sat down with Eliot Parker, host of podcast &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivoox.com\/en\/now-appalachia-interview-with-author-laura-leigh-morris-audios-mp3_rf_135609417_1.html\">Now, Appalachia<\/a>,&#8221; to talk about the book and the characters at the center of a fictional school shooting. Her first book, &#8220;Jaws of Life,&#8221; was published in 2018 and recounts stories about people living in West Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Leigh Morris, an associate professor of English, participated in an active shooter training session at Furman. Then she wrote a novel. Morris sat down with podcast host Eliot Parker to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":33749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,3197],"tags":[2970,3198,2996,1454],"class_list":["post-35662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-now-appalachia","tag-active-shooter-training","tag-appalachia","tag-fupo","tag-school-shooting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35662","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35665,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35662\/revisions\/35665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}