{"id":573891243,"date":"2019-06-03T22:57:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T02:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891243"},"modified":"2019-06-26T17:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T21:07:40","slug":"catching-up-with-another-friend-and-former-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/catching-up-with-another-friend-and-former-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with another friend and former student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u202aI don&#8217;t know what you did with your Saturday afternoon, but I spent part of mine catching up with the great <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBeckerWSBT\">Lauren Becker<\/a>. It&#8217;s like Old Home Week around here right now, which is great. It&#8217;s such a treat when nice people come back to visit.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june19\/june01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800<br \/>\n\u202aThe <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iustv.com\">IUSTV<\/a> news director emeritus is currently covering South Bend and Michiana for <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wsbt.com\/\">WSBT<\/a>. She was nice enough to spend part of her afternoon telling me all about how our program is helping set up tomorrow&#8217;s reporters, and realizing how so much of my advice is, in fact, brilliant. I should have rolled tape on that part, just to share with future students.<\/p>\n<p>She told me about a few of the stories she&#8217;s working on, the experiences she&#8217;s had in her first year on the job and all she&#8217;s learned.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to get her back down here when the students are on campus and let her tell the TV folks what they&#8217;ve got ahead of them. And especially that part about how my advice is pretty useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u202aI don&#8217;t know what you did with your Saturday afternoon, but I spent part of mine catching up with the great Lauren Becker. It&#8217;s like Old Home Week around here right now, which is great. It&#8217;s such a treat when nice people come back to visit. \u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800 \u202aThe IUSTV news director emeritus is currently covering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,35,3,10,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iu","category-journalism","category-monday","category-photo","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891243","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=573891243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891244,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891243\/revisions\/573891244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}