{"id":88,"date":"2022-08-19T13:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=88"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:04:31","slug":"earl-s-braggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2022\/earl-s-braggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl S. Braggs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>A Boy Named Boy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, Oct. 29, 9:30am &#8211; 12:30pm (\u00b111am)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b6c475e2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center 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\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>A native of rural Hamstead North Carolina, Earl S. Braggs has taught English at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga for many years. He is a well-known poet with 14 poetry collections to his name, the most recent of which are <em>Obama&#8217;s Children<\/em> and <em>Walking Back From Woodstock<\/em>. He will read from his debut memoir <em>A Boy Named Boy<\/em>, which has been described as a &#8220;complex jazz memoir of growing up black and poor in rural North Carolina.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earlsbraggs.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/earlbraggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/earlbraggs.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/earlbraggs-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/aboynamedboy_lg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/aboynamedboy_lg.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/aboynamedboy_lg-180x300.jpeg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of A Boy Named Boy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}