{"id":6830,"date":"2010-10-19T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:38:35","slug":"reading-by-john-irving-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/10\/19\/reading-by-john-irving-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading by John Irving tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6831      alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/09\/john_irving.jpg\" alt=\"john_irving\" width=\"190\" height=\"318\" \/>Tonight, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writing\/\">Creative Writing Program <\/a>is hosting celebrated novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-irving.com\/\">John Irving<\/a> for a reading from his latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Night-Twisted-River-Novel\/dp\/1400063841\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Last Night in Twisted River<\/span> <\/a>(2009) at 7 PM in 640 Commonwealth Avenue (COM 101 &#8211; Auditorium).\u00a0 Irving is the author of beloved favorites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/World-According-Garp-John-Irving\/dp\/034536676X\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The World According to Garp<\/span> <\/a>(1998) and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=thn4yOhru5YC&amp;dq=A+Prayer+for+Owen+Meany&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=bn&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=UhORTOWsOsP78Abf2_2kDg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=5&amp;ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">A Prayer for Owen Meany<\/a><\/span> (2002). Copies of his novels will be available for purchase at the event. <strong>The reading is free and open to the public. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, the Creative Writing Program is hosting celebrated novelist John Irving for a reading from his latest book, Last Night in Twisted River (2009) at 7 PM in 640 Commonwealth Avenue (COM 101 &#8211; Auditorium).\u00a0 Irving is the author of beloved favorites such as The World According to Garp (1998) and A Prayer for Owen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191],"tags":[3747,3746,3748],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}