{"id":3778,"date":"2015-05-15T19:37:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T23:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/15\/the-world-is-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:32:19","slug":"the-world-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-world-is-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts and songs of the apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/joni-tevis-book-worldonfire-smaller.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17978 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/joni-tevis-book-worldonfire-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"joni-tevis-book-worldonfire-smaller\" width=\"128\" height=\"193\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 128px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 128\/193;\" \/><\/a>We live in a world of ghosts, says author and Furman English professor Joni Tevis. In her new collection of essays, &#8220;The World is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure and Songs of the Apocalypse,&#8221; Tevis embarks on journeys to places that are haunted with remnants of the past, responding to them both emotionally and intellectually, trying to get at the heart of how she and others experience them. The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/life\/books\/2015\/05\/13\/furman-university-professor-joni-tevis-essay-collection\/27242849\/\">Asheville Citizen-Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> reported on Tevis\u2019 second collection of essays. Her first, &#8220;The Wet Collection,&#8221; was published in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a world of ghosts, says author and Furman English professor Joni Tevis. In her new collection of essays, &#8220;The World is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure and Songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","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=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}