{"id":70004,"date":"2018-05-18T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/?p=70004"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:28:05","slug":"may-19-nyt-best-selling-author-richard-north-patterson-68-to-speak-on-campus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/may-19-nyt-best-selling-author-richard-north-patterson-68-to-speak-on-campus-3\/","title":{"rendered":"May 19 &#8211; NYT Best-Selling Author Richard North Patterson &#8217;68 to Speak on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>New York Times No. 1 best-selling author and 1968 OWU graduate Richard North Patterson will return to campus\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">May 19<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to present &#8220;1968 and 2018 &#8211; History May Not Repeat Itself, But It Sure Does Rhyme.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Patterson&#8217;s free presentation\u00a0will be held at 10 a.m. in Room 301 of OWU&#8217;s Merrick Hall,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=65+S.+Sandusky+St.,+Delaware&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">65 S. Sandusky St., Delaware<\/a>, and is part of the university&#8217;s 2018 Reunion Weekend activities.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Patterson will take a look at two of the most disruptive periods in our history, with echoes of common elements: distrust of government, social division, racial tension, gun violence, and the continuing efforts of women to achieve equity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;For some of you 1968 is \u2013 quite literally \u2013 history, like John F. Kennedy and the Beatles,&#8221; Patterson states. &#8220;But for those of us who came of age then, that was the year it all cracked open. &#8230; For me, and many around me, that year was visceral and divisive, turning our lives upside down.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Patterson is the author of 23 books, with 16 of his novels earning spots on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Learn more about Patterson and his career at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardnorthpattersonbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.richardnorthpattersonbooks.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times No. 1 best-selling author and 1968 OWU graduate Richard North Patterson will return to campus\u00a0May 19\u00a0to present &#8220;1968 and 2018 &#8211; History May Not Repeat Itself, But It Sure Does Rhyme.&#8221; Patterson&#8217;s free presentation\u00a0will be held at 10 a.m. in Room 301 of OWU&#8217;s Merrick Hall,\u00a065 S. Sandusky St., Delaware, and is [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70009,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70004\/revisions\/70009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}