{"id":18251,"date":"2025-09-12T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/18251\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:35:06","slug":"tom-piazzas-new-book-is-living-in-the-present-with-john-prine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/18251\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Piazza&#8217;s new book is &#8220;Living in the Present with John Prine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Living in the Present with John Prine,&#8221; acclaimed writer Tom Piazza invites readers into the intimate final chapters of a legend\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What begins as an assignment for Oxford American\u00a0in the spring of 2018 evolves into much more than a magazine profile. As they trace winding roads and wander through record stores, Piazza and Prine cultivate a deep friendship, rich with laughter, storytelling, and the quiet magic that occurs when art and camaraderie converge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We welcome John Prine to the RT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In &#8220;Living in the Present with John Prine,&#8221; acclaimed writer Tom Piazza invites readers into the intimate final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-18251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}