{"id":8454,"date":"2019-10-22T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T16:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/22\/ben-gamble\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:22","slug":"ben-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ben-gamble\/","title":{"rendered":"Author of &#8216;Dragons Suck&#8217; admittedly a little cynical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Spanish and history alumnus Ben Gamble &#8217;19 was doing more than preparing for graduation back in May. He was putting the finishing touches on a book, &#8220;Dragons Suck&#8221;&#8211;a comedic fantasy he started in high school. He spoke to publicist Mary E. Regan in a Q&amp;A piece, which was picked up by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalscene.com\/community-news\/author-of-dragons-suck-admittedly-a-little-cynical\/article_27e086b4-f43c-11e9-ac37-7f69a1ab315c.html\">The Summerville Journal Scene<\/a><\/strong>. In it, he describes the inspiration for the book, the publication process and his plans for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Spanish and history alumnus Ben Gamble &#8217;19 was doing more than preparing for graduation back in May. He was putting the finishing touches on a book, &#8220;Dragons Suck&#8221;&#8211;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,42,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454","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=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}