{"id":2407,"date":"2021-11-15T10:40:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2021-11-15T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:47:02","slug":"tom-richards-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2021\/11\/15\/tom-richards-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Richards \u201978"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tom Richards \u201978<strong> <\/strong>is the author of <em>Dolphin Song<\/em>, a sweeping tale that follows the journey of an Irish-American family caught up in a storm of tragedy. The book is an extension of a screenplay Tom wrote with collaborator Liam O\u2019Neill, who died in May 2020 of COVID-19. Liam had encouraged Tom to adapt the screenplay as a book to help secure production finance, which Tom eventually completed, even after his friend\u2019s death. A story of romance, Irish legend and magic, <em>Dolphin Song <\/em>is available on Amazon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more or purchase <em>Dolphin Song <\/em>at https:\/\/www.tomrichards.ie\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom would also like to thank Dr John Ficca, a teacher and director. Tom says he was &#8220;The man who encouraged me through hard work to learn to write.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2021\/11\/FINAL-EBOOK-COVER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2021\/11\/FINAL-EBOOK-COVER-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2021\/11\/FINAL-EBOOK-COVER-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2021\/11\/FINAL-EBOOK-COVER-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2021\/11\/FINAL-EBOOK-COVER-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2021\/11\/FINAL-EBOOK-COVER-960x1536.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2021\/11\/FINAL-EBOOK-COVER-1280x2048.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2021\/11\/FINAL-EBOOK-COVER.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Richards \u201978 is the author of Dolphin Song, a sweeping tale that follows the journey of an Irish-American family caught up in a storm of tragedy. The book is an extension of a screenplay Tom wrote with collaborator Liam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2021\/11\/15\/tom-richards-78\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}