{"id":1050,"date":"2025-08-03T16:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:21:39","slug":"jordan-lahaye-fontenot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2025\/jordan-lahaye-fontenot\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan LaHaye Fontenot\u00a0"},"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>Home of the Happy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan LaHaye Fontenot was born and raised in the Acadiana region of South Louisiana, the setting of her debut true crime memoir investigating the death of her great-grandfather,\u00a0<em>Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie.\u00a0<\/em>She is Managing Editor for\u00a0<em>Country Roads<\/em>\u00a0magazine, for which she has written numerous essays. Her work has also appeared in the\u00a0<em>Oxford American<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Atlas Obscura.<\/em> She is the recipient of the 2018 Sarah Sue Goldsmith Award for Nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jordanlahayefontenot.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\/jfontenot_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/jfontenot_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/jfontenot_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=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/homeofthehappy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/homeofthehappy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/homeofthehappy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home of the Happy<br \/>\nOctober 25, 10:10am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","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\/1050","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=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}