{"id":3568,"date":"2020-01-31T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2020-03-17T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:25:07","slug":"a-colgate-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2020\/01\/31\/a-colgate-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Colgate Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The late, legendary Professor <strong>Fred Busch<\/strong> inspired both <a href=\"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2020\/01\/31\/as-good-as-her-words\/\">Karen Bloch Morse \u201995<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2020\/01\/31\/back-to-the-future\/\">Dan Slater \u201900<\/a> (among many others) to pursue writing careers. He also started Colgate\u2019s Living Writers course, which brings notable authors to campus.\u00a0 Here are snippets from a few of this year\u2019s visiting authors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI\u2019m interested in the function of the ways in which we tell other people\u2019s stories to bolster our own.\u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014 Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart author<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe know that truth is not just understood in the words we hear or that we are seeing, but there is also truth in action and in body language. That was my first language. I learned to read people.\u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014 Poet Layli Long Soldier &nbsp;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhat you take away will depend very much on what you came in with.\u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014 Kamila Shamsie, <em>Home Fire<\/em> author<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cCatharsis is never going to come for me. I don\u2019t want it to. The idea that you exorcise what is painful or difficult or your past has to do with denying who you are.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><cite>\u2014 Justin Torres, <em>We the Animals<\/em> author<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers from this year&#8217;s Living Writers series weigh in on the course and their writing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-endeavor","tag-living-writers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-Vy","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3828,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}