{"id":8275,"date":"2014-01-14T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2014-01-14T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:33:26","slug":"the-passing-of-fred-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=8275","title":{"rendered":"The Passing of Fred Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">Past National NAMA President, Fred W. Middleton passed away on January 10, 2014, at Methodist LeBonheur Germantown Hospital.<\/div>\n<p>Fred had a long and distinguished career as a writer and a public relations professional. He retired from the National Cotton Council, where he was the Public Relations Director. He worked as a sports writer at The Commercial Appeal and as the Sports Information Director at the University of Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/commercialappeal\/obituary.aspx?n=fred-w-middleton&amp;pid=169086423&amp;fhid=3714#sthash.eWx6VQmM.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/commercialappeal\/obituary.aspx?n=fred-w-middleton&amp;pid=169086423&amp;fhid=3714#sthash.eWx6VQmM.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past National NAMA President, Fred W. Middleton passed away on January 10, 2014, at Methodist LeBonheur Germantown Hospital. Fred had a long and distinguished career as a writer and a public relations professional. He retired from the National Cotton Council, where he was the Public Relations Director. He worked as a sports writer at The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}