{"id":332,"date":"2022-09-28T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=332"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:52:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:52:24","slug":"ken-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2019\/ken-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/kwells_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Wells\" class=\"wp-image-328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/kwells_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/kwells_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of <em>Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, October 11, 2:50 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Ken Wells grew up in Louisiana on the banks of Bayou Black. He wrote as a journalist for the <em>Miami Herald, The Wall Street Journal,<\/em> and <em>Bloomberg News<\/em>. He has also written the novels <em>Meely LaBauve, Junior\u2019s Leg, Logan\u2019s Storm, Crawfish Mountain,<\/em> and Rascal, a Dog and His Boy, as well as nonfiction<em> Travels with Barley, The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous, and Gumbo Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/bayoubro.com\">Ken Wells&#8217; author site<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/msbookspage.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/08\/gumbo-life-by-ken-wells\/\">Clarion Ledger review of Gumbo Life<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/gumbolife_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/gumbolife_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/gumbolife_lg-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}