{"id":8660,"date":"2020-02-17T00:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T00:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/local-author-megan-prewitt-koon-talks-sweet-divinity\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:06","slug":"local-author-megan-prewitt-koon-talks-sweet-divinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-author-megan-prewitt-koon-talks-sweet-divinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Local author Megan Prewitt Koon talks \u2018Sweet Divinity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Prewitt Koon, a 2002 Furman University English alumna, has written her debut book, &#8220;Sweet Divinity.&#8221; Subtitled &#8220;A little sweet, a little Southern \u2026 baked to perfection,&#8221; the story is about a woman whose marriage dissolves and who moves back to the farm where she was raised, living again with her mother. It&#8217;s about &#8220;how much of home stays with you even when you go off and make a new life for yourself,&#8221; said Koon in a Q&amp;A with <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/arts-culture\/author-profile-megan-koon\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Koon came to Furman in July 2019 as a student services counselor in Undergraduate Evening Studies. She now serves in Furman&#8217;s Information Technology Services as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption lead and as an adjunct professor in the Department of Communication Studies. She holds a Master of Arts in English (2005) through a joint program at College of Charleston and The Citadel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Prewitt Koon, a 2002 Furman University English alumna, has written her debut book, &#8220;Sweet Divinity.&#8221; Subtitled &#8220;A little sweet, a little Southern \u2026 baked to perfection,&#8221; the story is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,31,6,1,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized","category-undergraduate-evening-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","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=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}