{"id":1045,"date":"2025-08-03T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:22:53","slug":"lauren-rhoades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2025\/lauren-rhoades\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Rhoades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of <em>Split the Baby<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lauren Rhoades<\/strong>\u00a0is a graduate of The W\u2019s MFA in Creative Writing. A former director of the Eudora Welty House, she now serves as Director of Grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission and editor of the online magazine,\u00a0<em>Rooted<\/em> <em>Magazine<\/em>, which explores the lives of Mississippi natives, expats, and transplants.\u00a0<em>Split the Baby<\/em>\u00a0is her debut essay collection on growing up in an interfaith family separated by divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenrhoades.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/lrhoades_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/lrhoades_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/lrhoades_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/splitthebaby.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/splitthebaby.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/splitthebaby-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Split the Baby<br \/>\nOctober 25, 11:50am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}