{"id":4066,"date":"2013-09-06T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=4066"},"modified":"2022-09-27T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:53:31","slug":"david-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/david-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lane-Changes-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2922\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lane-Changes-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"Lane Changes Cover\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lane-Changes-Cover.jpg 195w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lane-Changes-Cover-146x225.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h2>David Lawrence<\/h2>\n<p>David Lawrence\u00a0has had a colorful, if checkered, life. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from CUNY Graduate Center and taught at Hunter College. In 1976 he went into business and within five years became the CEO of several large insurance brokerages on Wall Street. He became a professional boxer and fought on television in venues like Las Vegas and Atlantic City. He made a movie of his fight career, \u201cBoxer Rebellion,\u201d which played at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1993 he didn\u2019t pay his taxes on a few of his accounts, losing his multimillion-dollar businesses and ending up doing a two year bid in a Federal Prison Camp. Prior to, during, and subsequent to jail he became a rapper and recorded three albums. His poems have appeared in<em>\u00a0Folio, Hawaii Review, New Delta Review,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>South Carolina Review.<\/em>\u00a0He teaches boxing at Gleason\u2019s Gym in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/lane-changes\/\"><em>\u00a0Lane Changes<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/column] David Lawrence David Lawrence\u00a0has had a colorful, if checkered, life. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from CUNY Graduate Center and taught at Hunter College. In 1976 he went into business and within five years became the CEO of several large insurance brokerages on Wall Street. He became a professional boxer and fought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4066","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17931,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4066\/revisions\/17931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}