{"id":573890158,"date":"2017-08-31T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T03:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890158"},"modified":"2017-09-05T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:33:36","slug":"that-thing-that-everybodys-working-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/08\/31\/that-thing-that-everybodys-working-for\/","title":{"rendered":"That thing that everybody&#8217;s working for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s just something about today that makes it feel like Friday. Maybe it is that there is a three-day weekend ahead. Maybe because there is football tonight. There&#8217;s just something in the air to make it feel like today is the getaway day. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it is the little informal ceremony we had today. The Media School did a very low key thank you for Ed Spray. He&#8217;s an IU alum that has just had our television control room named in his honor. The studio is named after his classmate, Ken Beckley, who became quite successful on camera. Spray became a star off screen, and in media administration &#8211; Emmys in Chicago, management in Los Angeles, co-creator of HGTV and president of the Scripps Networks. Lovely gentleman, as unassuming as could be. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug17\/aug38.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the dean and Spray, on the left, in the control room. We decided that while there is a strict no food or drinks policy in the room, his name <strong>is<\/strong> on the door, so what can we do about it if he brings in a water bottle?  <\/p>\n<p>And then, this evening, I turned on the big screen, which usually shows off six different channels, to just the one for the big game. Thursday night football in 25-foot by 12-foot glory:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug17\/aug39.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So,  yeah, it seems like the weekend is already here.<\/p>\n<p>But, then, there is always tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s just something about today that makes it feel like Friday. Maybe it is that there is a three-day weekend ahead. Maybe because there is football tonight. There&#8217;s just something in the air to make it feel like today is the getaway day. Maybe it is the little informal ceremony we had today. The Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,73,10,76,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-iu","category-photo","category-television","category-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573890158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890159,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890158\/revisions\/573890159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}