{"id":3427,"date":"2014-02-07T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:18:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:18:38","slug":"dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest installment of our\u00a0<\/em>Recommended Reads\u00a0series, \u00a0Dr. Rai Peterson<\/em>\u00a0recommends<\/em> fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf. Dr. Peterson is also interested in starting a reading group on campus. Check out the post below for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n

I teach queer literature classes, and unlike the other literature classes I am assigned to cover, queer lit has no geographical or chronological restrictions placed upon its syllabus.\u00a0\u00a0 We can read almost anything we want, and while queer readings of ostensibly straight texts can be fun and enlightening, there is so much great literature both by and about LGBTQ writers and characters, that choosing among those can be difficult (in a good way).\u00a0 Also, new ideas for the course cross my desk weekly, and I am always asking friends and students what they are reading.\u00a0 Below is a sampling of the better books recommended by friends (and if I don\u2019t count Amazon as my friend, it should number me among its BFFs, based on my ordering history).<\/p>\n

In One Person<\/a><\/i><\/b> by John Irving<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Jeff, who was visiting us from New York for Thanksgiving, suggested that I read Irving\u2019s latest book.\u00a0 For those of you who have read Irving\u2019s A Prayer for Owen Meany<\/i> (or almost any other Irving book), this novel is redundantly familiar.\u00a0 The main character, Bill Abbott, is an adolescent boy whose mother is reticent about the father he never knew.\u00a0 He is a student at the local all-boy\u2019s boarding school, where his beloved stepfather is a favorite faculty member. This story also has a domineering grandmother, a tough female cousin, a kind but competitive aunt, a manly uncle, a wise old wrestling coach, and assorted community theatre weirdoes.\u00a0 In other words, a dismissive reviewer would call In One Person<\/i> the queerer Owen Meany<\/i>.\u00a0 The only thing missing is the requisite Irving bear.<\/p>\n

Irving\u2019s followers, however, would argue that he is peeling an onion, revealing the similar cells in a series of novels that grow increasingly tender and closer to the heart. Bill, the protagonist, like Irving himself and countless of his protagonists before Bill, was born in 1942.\u00a0 In earlier novels, Irving has already sympathetically presented homespun artificial insemination, incest, a contemporary virgin birth, and asexuality, so it comes as no surprise that In One Person<\/i> is a wildly funny and sincerely poignant look at bi-sexuals, transgender persons, and cross-dressers.\u00a0 If you can stand one more thinly veiled Irving autobiography, this book is worthy of your attention.<\/p>\n

By Nightfall<\/i><\/b> by Michael Cunningham<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

I really can\u2019t mention Irving\u2019s latest book without strongly recommending Michael Cunningham\u2019s By Nightfall<\/i>.\u00a0 Both of these writers are on the cusp of being canonized in American literature (I hope), and both invent characters with a wide range of genders.\u00a0 Cunningham\u2019s book was recommended to me by our mutual advisor, Amazon.com.<\/p>\n

Cunningham, more subtly than Irving, refutes the binary model of gender.\u00a0 His expertly drawn protagonist, Peter Harris, demonstrates that romantic attraction is much stronger than sexual orientation. (Just you try splitting that hair without a microscope.)\u00a0 Although some other characters in the book might dismiss Peter as a \u201cmetrosexual,\u201d Peter could not sort himself out so neatly, especially not after the events in the book have unfolded.\u00a0 Cunningham delicately posits the notion that there is no difference between gay and straight mortals, life and death being far more absorbing.\u00a0 There is a thin gradation between gay and straight in all of Cunningham\u2019s books, and an even more liminal boundary between youth and age. \u00a0If you only read one book on this list, make it By Nightfall <\/i>(and then because it\u2019s short, grab another).<\/p>\n

Magical Thinking<\/i><\/b> by Augusten Burroughs<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

As she turned in her ENG 494 final, Shelby gave me an assignment.\u00a0 She laid her copy of Augusten Burroughs\u2019 third memoir down with her test paper and asked me to read it.\u00a0 How could I refuse?\u00a0 It is the only example of the prolific Burroughs\u2019 work I have read.\u00a0 The book is a series of vignettes ranging from the creepy (trying to literally drown a rat in his bathtub) to the snarkily smart (gay couples trading in their trendy Shar Pei puppies when babies suddenly become more fashionable).<\/p>\n

The shorthand is: Augusten Burroughs is the twenty-teens answer to the twenty-oughts\u2019 David Sedaris.\u00a0 Gay, trendy, wickedly smart, and just plain wicked, Burroughs\u2019 book is a fun read.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t deep.\u00a0 You could easily read it in a week by switching it out for HuffPo<\/i> in your daily routine.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t better than a novel, but it\u2019s worth perusing.<\/p>\n

Imre<\/i><\/b> by Edward Prime-Stevenson<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Graduate student Claire drew up her own reading list for a directed study in queer literature this term, and the first book on it was Imre <\/i>by Edward Prime-Stevenson.\u00a0 First published privately in 1906, the book\u2019s first person narrator, Oswald is an \u201cinvert\u201d who meets a dashing army officer during a stay in Hungary.\u00a0 The novella is divided into three chapters: the friendship, Oswald\u2019s coming out, and the aftermath of that.<\/p>\n

The book provides engaging documentation of the image of gay men and their excessive caution as closeted homosexuals.\u00a0 Prime-Stevenson, and presumably Oswald, was born at about the same time as Oscar Wilde.\u00a0 Like Radclyffe Hall later did in The Well of Loneliness<\/i>, Prime-Stevenson incorporated the work of leading sexologists of the day into his story, including Oswald\u2019s meeting with a psychoanalyst. \u00a0\u00a0Imre<\/i> also seems to be a clear antecedent, both in terms of its subject matter and its delayed printing, to Christopher Isherwood\u2019s Christopher and His Kind<\/i>. So, Imre<\/i> is best known now by the books it might have encouraged, but it is worth being read itself.<\/p>\n

Orlando<\/i><\/b>, Virgina Woolf<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

I last read Orlando <\/i>on a delayed flight from London in 1999 with the sweet sorrow of waving goodbye to teashops and the Thames upon my fingertips (making it easier, actually, to turn the pages back to reveal London\u2019s history). \u00a0I\u2019m thinking it is time to dip into Woolf\u2019s love letter to Vita Sackville West again.\u00a0 If you\u2019re interested in reading it with me, let me know, and we\u2019ll come up with a schedule.\u00a0 Actually, a queer reading group on campus could have even broader parameters than the class!\u00a0 Let me know if you\u2019d be interested in joining.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got Wednesday evenings free at 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the latest installment of our\u00a0Recommended Reads\u00a0series, \u00a0Dr. Rai Peterson\u00a0recommends fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf. Dr. Peterson is also interested in starting a reading group on campus. Check out the post below for more details. I teach queer literature classes, and unlike the other literature classes I am assigned to cover, queer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[138,458,822,1023,1232,1238,1570],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendation-station","tag-augusten-burroughs","tag-edward-prime-stevenson","tag-john-irving","tag-michael-cunningham","tag-queer-fiction","tag-rai-peterson","tag-virgina-woolf"],"yoast_head":"\nDr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf - Ball State English Department<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf - Ball State English Department\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the latest installment of our\u00a0Recommended Reads\u00a0series, \u00a0Dr. Rai Peterson\u00a0recommends fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf. Dr. Peterson is also interested in starting a reading group on campus. Check out the post below for more details. I teach queer literature classes, and unlike the other literature classes I am assigned to cover, queer […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ball State English Department\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-07T18:07:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-11-12T18:18:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"bsuenglish\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"bsuenglish\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"bsuenglish\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5d5bdb431c46777781c832805fc5c5c8\"},\"headline\":\"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-07T18:07:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-12T18:18:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1079,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"Augusten Burroughs\",\"Edward Prime-Stevenson\",\"John Irving\",\"Michael Cunningham\",\"Queer Fiction\",\"Rai Peterson\",\"Virgina Woolf\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Recommendation Station\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf - Ball State English Department\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-07T18:07:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-12T18:18:38+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5d5bdb431c46777781c832805fc5c5c8\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/07\\\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ball State English Department\",\"description\":\"Your home for all things #bsuenglish\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5d5bdb431c46777781c832805fc5c5c8\",\"name\":\"bsuenglish\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/500c2bd8b588bc94b7e044b419369841b4b7b0b13fa6baaef952f1f345bf5e49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/500c2bd8b588bc94b7e044b419369841b4b7b0b13fa6baaef952f1f345bf5e49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/500c2bd8b588bc94b7e044b419369841b4b7b0b13fa6baaef952f1f345bf5e49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"bsuenglish\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bsu.edu\\\/english\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/bsuenglish\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf - Ball State English Department","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf - Ball State English Department","og_description":"In the latest installment of our\u00a0Recommended Reads\u00a0series, \u00a0Dr. Rai Peterson\u00a0recommends fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf. Dr. Peterson is also interested in starting a reading group on campus. Check out the post below for more details. I teach queer literature classes, and unlike the other literature classes I am assigned to cover, queer […]","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/","og_site_name":"Ball State English Department","article_published_time":"2014-02-07T18:07:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-11-12T18:18:38+00:00","author":"bsuenglish","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"bsuenglish","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/"},"author":{"name":"bsuenglish","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/5d5bdb431c46777781c832805fc5c5c8"},"headline":"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf","datePublished":"2014-02-07T18:07:18+00:00","dateModified":"2018-11-12T18:18:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/"},"wordCount":1079,"commentCount":0,"keywords":["Augusten Burroughs","Edward Prime-Stevenson","John Irving","Michael Cunningham","Queer Fiction","Rai Peterson","Virgina Woolf"],"articleSection":["Recommendation Station"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/","name":"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf - Ball State English Department","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-02-07T18:07:18+00:00","dateModified":"2018-11-12T18:18:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/5d5bdb431c46777781c832805fc5c5c8"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/dr-rai-peterson-recommends-queer-fiction-by-irving-cunningham-burroughs-prime-stevenson-and-woolf\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dr. Rai Peterson Recommends Queer Fiction by Irving, Cunningham, Burroughs, Prime-Stevenson, and Woolf"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/","name":"Ball State English Department","description":"Your home for all things #bsuenglish","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/#\/schema\/person\/5d5bdb431c46777781c832805fc5c5c8","name":"bsuenglish","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/500c2bd8b588bc94b7e044b419369841b4b7b0b13fa6baaef952f1f345bf5e49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/500c2bd8b588bc94b7e044b419369841b4b7b0b13fa6baaef952f1f345bf5e49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/500c2bd8b588bc94b7e044b419369841b4b7b0b13fa6baaef952f1f345bf5e49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"bsuenglish"},"url":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/author\/bsuenglish\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}