{"id":71980,"date":"2018-09-27T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=71980"},"modified":"2018-09-26T23:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:11:18","slug":"oct-1-7-p-m-tigerland-black-author-discusses-new-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/oct-1-7-p-m-tigerland-black-author-discusses-new-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 1 @ 7 p.m. &#8211; TIGERLAND: Best-selling Author Discusses New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join OMSA on Monday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Benes Room (Ham-Wil 1st floor), as we welcome renowned author Wil Haygood home to the Central Ohio area! Haygood is best known for his book &#8220;The Butler,&#8221; which inspired the award-winning film starring Forest Whitaker &amp; Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n<p>Haygood will be discussing his new book &#8220;TIGERLAND: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing.&#8221; The book focuses on two sports teams at East High School in Columbus, OH, and according to Booklist.com, &#8220;the &#8216;magic&#8217; that happens during the traumatic and tragic events of 1968 and 1969.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gregory L. Moore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and &#8217;76 OWU alum, will interview Haygood about the book and invite questions from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the event on Facebook for more information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/337053467047051\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/337053467047051\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Start Date\/Time: October 1, 2018 at 7:00 PM.<br \/>\nEnd Date\/Time: October 1, 2018 at 8:30 PM.<br \/>\nLocation: Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, Room: Benes Room.<\/p>\n<p>Cost: Free.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: OMSA.<br \/>\nContact: Charles Kellom at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:omsa@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">omsa@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join OMSA on Monday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Benes Room (Ham-Wil 1st floor), as we welcome renowned author Wil Haygood home to the Central Ohio area! Haygood is best known for his book &#8220;The Butler,&#8221; which inspired the award-winning film starring Forest Whitaker &amp; Oprah Winfrey. Haygood will be discussing his new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72294,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71980\/revisions\/72294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}