{"id":7238,"date":"2018-02-16T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/16\/derek-snook-pens-book-recounting-lessons-learned-in-charleston\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:00:42","slug":"derek-snook-pens-book-recounting-lessons-learned-in-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/derek-snook-pens-book-recounting-lessons-learned-in-charleston\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Snook pens book recounting lessons learned in Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35636\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35636\" class=\"wp-image-35636 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/snook-book2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Snook is a 2008 Furman history graduate.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Derek Snook, a 2008 Furman University history graduate, spent time teaching in Kenya, chose to live a year in a Charleston homeless shelter, and worked for a short time as a day-laborer. Not long after, he and a business partner launched In Every Story Labor Services, a non-traditional staffing company that pays higher wages, rewards reliability and hard work through profit sharing and bonuses, and aims to transition workers to full-time jobs. <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/features\/derek-snook-pens-book-recounting-lessons-learned-in-charleston\/article_fdcd33aa-ffa4-11e7-97ca-b38c7df3341b.html\">The Post and Courier&#8217;s<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>Adam Parker spoke with Snook about his new book, <em>The Definition of Success &#8211; What Living Homeless Taught Me<\/em>. Learn more about the book and what others are saying about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dereksnook.net\/the-definition-of-success\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Snook, a 2008 Furman University history graduate, spent time teaching in Kenya, chose to live a year in a Charleston homeless shelter, and worked for a short time as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238","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=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}