{"id":7977,"date":"2014-10-15T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=7977"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:03:56","slug":"7977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2014\/10\/15\/7977\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Oct. 18th &#8211; National Book Award Winner Colum McCann"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7978\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/WMLTile_DAA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7978\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/WMLTile_DAA.jpg\" alt=\"Book signing at 4 PM.\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Book signing at 4 PM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Saturday, 18 October, 2014<br \/>\n5:00 PM<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The University of Scranton will present the<br \/>\n<strong>Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award<\/strong><br \/>\nto author and scholar Colum McCann.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">McCann was born in Ireland and he is the author of six novels and two collections of stories. He has been the recipient of many international honors including the National Book Award and the International Dublin Impac Prize.<\/p>\n<p>To register, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/authaward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">www.scranton.edu\/authaward<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Questions, contact Kym Fetsko at <a href=\"mailto:kym.fetsko@scranton.edu\" target=\"_blank\">kym.fetsko@scranton.edu<\/a>, or call 570-941-7816.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 18 October, 2014 5:00 PM The University of Scranton will present the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award to author and scholar Colum McCann. McCann was born in Ireland and he is the author of six novels and two collections of stories. He has been the recipient of many international honors including the National [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-schemel-forum-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7977"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7993,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}