{"id":596,"date":"2014-06-19T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=596"},"modified":"2015-05-21T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:13:04","slug":"the-madonnas-of-echo-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2014\/06\/19\/the-madonnas-of-echo-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madonnas of Echo Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a good read for the summer, <em>The Madonnas of Echo Park<\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000\">by Brando Skyhorse\u00a0<\/span>is a good candidate for your list. \u00a0The book has also been selected to be part of IWU&#8217;s <a title=\"Reading Program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/advising\/reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Reading Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Summer Reading Program is an opportunity for incoming students to participate in a shared intellectual conversation with the IWU community. Students can express ideas about a <em>The Madonnas of Echo Park<\/em>\u00a0that other\u00a0IWU students, faculty, staff, and alumni have\u00a0reading. \u00a0When Freshmen come for their first week at IWU, they can\u00a0respectfully resound to ideas others bring to the discussion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can participate in an alumni only book discussion group in Bloomington, Chicago or Washington DC, please click here to register or contact your area Alumni Regional President directly. \u00a0Click <a title=\"Sign up for Reading Program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.titanpride.org\/s\/653\/index.aspx?sid=653&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=1728&amp;cid=3016&amp;ecid=3016&amp;crid=0&amp;calpgid=61&amp;calcid=2508\" target=\"_blank\">here to RSVP<\/a> for the campus book discussion group on Friday, August 20, 6-8pm.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, September 3rd, the author will be discussing his book at the President&#8217;s Convocation at 11 am at Westbrook Auditorium in Presser Hall, IWU. \u00a0 It&#8217;s will be a great opportunity to meet the author and hear more about the novel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a good read for the summer, The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse\u00a0is a good candidate for your list. \u00a0The book has also been selected to be part of IWU&#8217;s Summer Reading Program. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2014\/06\/19\/the-madonnas-of-echo-park\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"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-596","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\/596","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\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}