{"id":2488,"date":"2026-06-02T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:19:35","slug":"e498-with-brent-van-staalduinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/e498-with-brent-van-staalduinen\/","title":{"rendered":"E498 with BRENT VAN STAALDUINEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey folks! Over the years I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of doing a lot work with author <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentvans.com\/\">Brent Van Staalduinen<\/a><\/strong>, visiting his creative writing class and assisting in book launches. Happy to have him as my second-to-last regular guest! We talk about his latest, and imho best, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thistledownpress.com\/product\/the-peace-thieves\/\">The Peace Thieves<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E498 with Brent Van Staalduinen June 4 by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2331472013&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! Over the years I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of doing a lot work with author Brent Van Staalduinen, visiting his creative writing class and assisting in book launches. Happy to have him as my second-to-last regular guest! We talk about his latest, and imho best, The Peace Thieves. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,225,23,31,20,24,16,13,170,1459,1460],"class_list":{"0":"post-2488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-books","8":"tag-brent-van-staalduinen","9":"tag-cfmu","10":"tag-fiction","11":"tag-get-lit","12":"tag-hamilton","13":"tag-jamie-tennant","14":"tag-literature","15":"tag-mcmaster-university","16":"tag-the-peace-thieves","17":"tag-thistledown-press","18":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}