{"id":476,"date":"2022-09-28T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=476"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:43:03","slug":"rodney-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2017\/rodney-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/rjones_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>Village Prodigies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/covers\/villageprodigies_lg.jpg\" alt=\"villageprodigies sm\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Rodney Jones is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He grew up in a small town in Alabama, much like Cold Springs, the setting of&nbsp;his latest collection, <em>Village Prodigies,<\/em> a novel in verse. Jones is the author of 10 books of poetry including <em>Things that Happen Once,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Elegy for the Southern Drawl,&nbsp;Kingdom of the Instant,&nbsp;Imaginary Logic,<\/em> and <em>Salvations Blues<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Village Prodigies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}