{"id":7482,"date":"2018-05-18T19:58:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/18\/getting-it-right\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:02:25","slug":"getting-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/getting-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35671\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35671\" class=\"wp-image-35671 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Jaws-of-Life-cover-1200x776-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"447\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 289px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 289\/447;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Jaws of Life: Stories&#8221; is Morris&#8217; first book.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Appalachia tends to get short-changed according to author and critic Gonzalo Baeza who reviews two books for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wearetheobserver.com\/getting-it-right\/\">The Observer<\/a><\/strong>. One of them is a recently published collection of short stories by Furman University English professor Laura Leigh Morris. Says Baeza, &#8220;The mosaic of characters in\u00a0Laura Leigh Morris\u2019 debut short story collection &#8220;Jaws of Life&#8221; &#8230; provides a rich account of life in West Virginia. The strength of its stories, however, doesn\u2019t lie in their factuality &#8230; but in their literary inventiveness, vivid characters, and the rich shared universe of Brickton, where most of them take place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appalachia tends to get short-changed according to author and critic Gonzalo Baeza who reviews two books for The Observer. One of them is a recently published collection of short stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7482","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\/7482","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=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}