{"id":1783,"date":"2020-09-30T16:54:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1783"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:59:19","slug":"lawrence-wright","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/lawrence-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, a playwright, a screenwriter, and the author of ten books of nonfiction, including <em>The Looming Tower<\/em>, <em>Going Clear<\/em>, and <em>God Save Texas<\/em>, and three previous novels, <em>Mr. Texas<\/em>, <em>The End of October<\/em>, and <em>God&#8217;s Favorite<\/em>. His books have received many honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for <em>The Looming Tower<\/em>. His most recent book is a novel, <em>The Human Scale<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1784,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-1783","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Author and Staff Writer for The New Yorker","speaker_last_name":"Wright","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1783\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}