{"id":871,"date":"2005-11-28T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T21:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=871"},"modified":"2005-11-28T18:06:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T23:06:18","slug":"michael-parker-reads-from-aint-gonna-bump-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/michael-parker-reads-from-aint-gonna-bump-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Parker reads from Ain&#8217;t Gonna Bump No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leslee Farish write to alert us that Michael Parker will read from his story <em>Hidden Meanings: Treatment of Time, Supreme Irony, and Life Experiences in the Song &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Gonna Bump No More Big Fat Woman.&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=240\">I blogged about being delighted by this story when I read it in the Oxford American back in January.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong>  Michael Parker, UNC alumnus, award-wining novelist and fiction professor in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro&#8217;s MFA writing program<br \/>\n<strong>What:<\/strong> Parker will read from his story <em>Hidden Meanings: Treatment of Time, Supreme Irony, and Life Experiences in the Song &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Gonna Bump No More Big Fat Woman.&#8221;<\/em> He will also be hosting a discussion focusing on the issues raised in the story: body image, stress, family life, and relationships, in addition to sharing his own thoughts and feelings about the piece.<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> Noon, Friday, December 2<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> the Mary Turner Lane Reading and Resource Room <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/womenscenter\/\">at the Carolina Women&#8217;s Center<\/a> 134 East Franklin St, Suite 215<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslee Farish write to alert us that Michael Parker will read from his story Hidden Meanings: Treatment of Time, Supreme Irony, and Life Experiences in the Song &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Gonna Bump No More Big Fat Woman.&#8221; I blogged about being delighted by this story when I read it in the Oxford American back in January. Who: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}