{"id":348,"date":"2022-09-28T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=348"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:40:02","slug":"john-bateman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2019\/john-bateman\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bateman"},"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\/jbateman_lg.jpg\" alt=\"John Bateman\" class=\"wp-image-325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/jbateman_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/jbateman_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>Who Killed Buster Sparkle?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, October 12, 11:40 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John W. Bateman is the Executive Director of the Starkville Area Arts Council and is a recipient of a 2018 Emerging Filmmaker Grant from the Mississippi Film Alliance. He has writing credits on the movie <em>Go Go, Boy!<\/em> and an episode of<em> The Bench Project<\/em>. The Southern gothic mystery <em>Who Killed Buster Sparkle?<\/em> is his debut novel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnwbateman.com\">John W. Bateman author site<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.starkvilledailynews.com\/entertainment\/local-author-saac-director-releases-debut-novel\/article_63459de6-8b9d-11e9-be1f-93c16f09fa48.html\">Starkville Daily News coverage<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" 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=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bustersparkle_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bustersparkle_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bustersparkle_lg-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Who Killed Buster Sparkle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","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\/348","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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}