{"id":338,"date":"2005-03-04T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=338"},"modified":"2005-03-04T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T21:27:41","slug":"the-pleasure-was-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-pleasure-was-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasure Was Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tommyhays.com\/About_Tommy\/\">Novelist Tommy Hays<\/a> writes about important human things like growing up &#8212; I mean seizing your adult life instead of avoiding it &#8212; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0689121695\">Sam&#8217;s Crossing<\/a>, his first novel. Coming of age, as a ten year old in the South when death, race, and religion intermingle and where being a &#8220;Waffle House mystic&#8221; is an actual career choice in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812992474\/\">In the Family Way<\/a>.<br \/>\nHis third novel is just out from Saint Martin&#8217;s. <a href=\"http:\/\/tommyhays.com\/Home\/\">The Pleasure Was Mine<\/a> deals with dealing with Alzheimer&#8217;s. This time at the late end of life. Tommy will be in Chapel Hill at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fearringtonvillage.com\/mcintyres.asp\">McIntyre&#8217;s Books<\/a> on April 16 and in Raleigh at <a href=\"http:\/\/quailridgebooks.booksense.com\/NASApp\/store\/IndexJsp\">Quail Ridge Books<\/a> on April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Tommy Hays writes about important human things like growing up &#8212; I mean seizing your adult life instead of avoiding it &#8212; in Sam&#8217;s Crossing, his first novel. Coming of age, as a ten year old in the South when death, race, and religion intermingle and where being a &#8220;Waffle House mystic&#8221; is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}