{"id":4548,"date":"2016-05-27T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T00:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/01\/the-commissioner-of-dread\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:50:00","slug":"the-commissioner-of-dread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-commissioner-of-dread\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commissioner of Dread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Dread,\u201d a poem by Furman English professor Bill Aarnes, was selected as poem of the day by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versedaily.org\/2016\/thecommissionerofdread.shtml\">Verse Daily<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 According to the poetry daily site, it republishes \u201cone new poem a day from fine literary magazines and books\u201d in an effort to promote poets and their publishers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24897\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24897\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24897 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/bill-aarnes-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Bill Aarnes\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bill Aarnes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Aarnes\u00a0will retire from the faculty on Aug. 1 after teaching at Furman since 1981.\u00a0 He has published two collections of poems\u2014<em>Learning to Dance<\/em>\u00a0(1991) and <em>Predicaments<\/em>\u00a0(2001)\u2014both published by Ninety-Six Press. Over the years he has had poetry published in\u00a0<em>The Southern Review, The American Scholar<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Poetry<\/em>. Recent poems have appeared in\u00a0<em>Main Street Rag, Shark Reef<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Red Savina Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Dread,\u201d a poem by Furman English professor Bill Aarnes, was selected as poem of the day by Verse Daily.\u00a0 According to the poetry daily site, it republishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4548","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\/4548","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=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}