{"id":7319,"date":"2018-03-16T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/16\/wwes-xavier-woods-says-new-days-book-has-power-of-positivity\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:01:12","slug":"wwes-xavier-woods-says-new-days-book-has-power-of-positivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wwes-xavier-woods-says-new-days-book-has-power-of-positivity\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE&#8217;s Xavier Woods says New Day&#8217;s book has &#8216;power of positivity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Woods, also known as Austin Watson, not only had his sights set on earning degrees in philosophy and psychology at Furman. He aspired to become a professional wrestler. So, well before graduating Furman in 2008, he debuted as a part-time wrestler in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s part of tag team\u00a0New Day for World Wrestling Entertainment. And as of March 13, he&#8217;ll add published author to his list of credits with a new book released by the team, &#8220;Book of Booty.&#8221; Woods spoke to columnist Jay Reddick in an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/wrestling\/os-wwe-xavier-woods-new-day-20180313-story.html\">Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/strong> story about the book. \u201cIt\u2019s full of action; you can see my greatest hairstyles and Big E\u2019s [New Day team member] favorite dance moves. All positivity and good thoughts \u2014 it\u2019s very New Day. Fun for kids and adults,\u201d said Woods.\u00a0&#8220;Everything we accomplish now is so cool, it\u2019s absurd. Things keep happening and I wonder when the ride is going to stop,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, a video game fanatic, also holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Capella University (Minneapolis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Woods, also known as Austin Watson, not only had his sights set on earning degrees in philosophy and psychology at Furman. He aspired to become a professional wrestler. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,36,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-philosophy","category-psychology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","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=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}