{"id":573891287,"date":"2019-06-28T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891287"},"modified":"2019-07-11T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T18:00:05","slug":"the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/06\/28\/the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"I know The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch with a former student today. Alex &#8220;The Answer&#8221; Eady graduated a year ago and has been doing news on WTIU here locally since then. We&#8217;ve been able to get together a few times over that period with her busy schedule. Today, though, was a sad meeting, because she&#8217;s skipping town.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june19\/june08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve watched her work for three years now, and now I&#8217;ll have to see it from afar. Her next stop is Virginia, and big things are in store for her. She&#8217;s got all the talent, charm, work ethic and know how one needs to be the next big thing. Her time is coming and she&#8217;s going to take advantage of it in a big way. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just miss the lunches.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s always social media. And with her move, I&#8217;ll have former students, and now friends, working in 18 markets across 13 states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch with a former student today. Alex &#8220;The Answer&#8221; Eady graduated a year ago and has been doing news on WTIU here locally since then. We&#8217;ve been able to get together a few times over that period with her busy schedule. Today, though, was a sad meeting, because she&#8217;s skipping town. I&#8217;ve watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,73,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-iu","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891287","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=573891287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891289,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891287\/revisions\/573891289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}