{"id":4937,"date":"2013-01-06T17:52:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T22:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/clemsonworld\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2013-01-06T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T22:52:05","slug":"the-iguana-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/the-iguana-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iguana Tree: Michel Smoak Stone \u201991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English graduate Michel Smoak Stone\u2019s debut novel, The Iguana Tree, which Library Journal says \u201crecalls the work of John Steinbeck,\u201d received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and an award for one of the top novels published in 2012 by an independent publisher.<br \/>\nRaised on Johns Island, Stone encountered illegal Mexican immigrants who \u201cwere forthright in telling me their story.\u201d The inspiration for her book came from a couple who were smuggled into the U.S. with their young child. Stone wanted to explore why people would take such a risk, would put themselves into the hands of people they couldn\u2019t trust \u2014 people who might, in fact, just as soon kill them as look at them \u2014 without even knowing whether the risks ultimately would be worthwhile.<br \/>\nStone lives in Spartanburg and is working on her second novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English graduate Michel Smoak Stone\u2019s debut novel, The Iguana Tree, which Library Journal says \u201crecalls the work of John Steinbeck,\u201d received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and an award for one of the top novels published in 2012 by an independent publisher. Raised on Johns Island, Stone encountered illegal Mexican immigrants who \u201cwere forthright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[3296],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","tag-winter-2013"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}