{"id":52240,"date":"2016-03-18T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=52240"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:52:56","slug":"tangent-dreams-skyrockets-into-thrilling-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=52240","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTangent Dreams&#8230;Skyrockets Into Thrilling Achievements&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_52242\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Phil-Reed.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52242\" class=\" wp-image-52242\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Phil-Reed.gif\" alt=\"Radio newsman, APU professor; Phil Reed\" width=\"200\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio newsman, APU professor; Phil Reed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Phil Reed<\/p>\n<p>An unassuming sportswriter in the San Gabriel Valley (northeast of downtown Los Angeles) has written the new \u2018coming-of-age\u2019 novel for the third millennium: \u201cTangent Dreams.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reader gets inside the head of Dale Andrade as he becomes involved\u2026deeply committed to football\u2026emotionally involved with another player\u2019s girl\u2026increasingly detached from his family\u2026and then the triumph of clarity of the importance of \u201cthe real things in life\u201d at the end.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50812\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tangent-Dreams-School-Football-Novel-ebook\/dp\/B01ABCBLH2\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458333902&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=tangent+dreams\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\" wp-image-50812\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tangentdreams_jpg-594x768.jpg\" alt=\" Joe Torosian's high school football novel is available through Amazon.com (Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)\" width=\"269\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Joe Torosian&#8217;s high school football novel is available through Amazon.com<\/strong><br \/><strong>(Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It starts off slowly, moves into team bonds, skyrockets into thrilling \u2018on-the-field\u2019 achievements, and then the ripping, tearing, disappointments that follow the almost-realization of his new dreams. And the carefully crafted depiction of emotional maturity of a fine young man as he comes through pain, victory, defeat, and the subversion of his own ego\u2026into manhood.<\/p>\n<p>What had only been peripheral swings into center-vision, and while almost loses his footing\u2026he doesn\u2019t. There is peace.<\/p>\n<p>Read \u201cTangent Dreams\u201d and be carried along by Joe Torosian\u2019s amazing writing abilities. And when you reach the end of this landmark novel, read who \u2018Joe T.\u2019 is on the last page. I think you\u2019ll understand by that point that only one with his finger in so many pies could\u2019ve written this novel. But I, personally, am still working to comprehend the talent that brought it all together in this deeply impressive, finely wrought tale of an inner, and outer, \u2018real world\u2019 on the pages of a book.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phil Reed is a news anchor, media professor, and retired pastor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Phil Reed An unassuming sportswriter in the San Gabriel Valley (northeast of downtown Los Angeles) has written the new \u2018coming-of-age\u2019 novel for the third millennium: \u201cTangent Dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52245,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52240\/revisions\/52245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}