{"id":2578,"date":"2015-02-27T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2015-02-27T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T14:38:54","slug":"former-professor-of-english-john-david-walker-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/02\/27\/former-professor-of-english-john-david-walker-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Professor of English John David Walker dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John David Walker, 83, former professor of English, died at his home Feb. 24, 2015. He joined the faculty at Binghamton in the early 1960s, retiring in 1995 after 35 years. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree from Abilene Christian University, a master\u2019s degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and his PhD specializing in 18th-century English literature from the University of Florida, Gainesville. Following his retirement, he participated in six of the University\u2019s London semester-abroad programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/inside\/index.php\/news-briefs\/show\/former-professor-of-english-john-david-walker-dies\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John David Walker, 83, former professor of English, died at his home Feb. 24, 2015. He joined the faculty at Binghamton in the early 1960s, retiring in 1995 after 35 years. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree from Abilene Christian University, a master\u2019s degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and his PhD specializing in 18th-century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}