{"id":5913,"date":"2014-09-03T15:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T22:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T22:59:57","slug":"semi-props-from-the-doo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/03\/semi-props-from-the-doo\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi- Props From the &#8216;Doo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00HU5NEQK?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bigjimind-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00HU5NEQK\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Denisonian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>From racetracks to race relations: Denison\u2019s little-known alumni<\/h1>\n<p>By David Allen and Carole Burkett, <em>Sports Editor and Editor-in-Chief<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"single-thumb\"><a class=\"preview-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denisonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P8251706.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fadeover wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denisonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P8251706-620x270.jpg\" alt=\"Assorted Adytums\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We all know about Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, and Richard Lugar, but who knew that we had a potato salad entrepreneur, top international pastry chef, and Indy500 winner in our ranks? Here are some exceptional forerunners to inspire us as we begin a new academic year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zack Brown \u201805<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisonian.com\/2014\/07\/features\/alum-browns-60k-potato-salad-rivets-internet-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Known recently for becoming a viral sensation after raising over 60,000 dollars for a faux potato salad kickstarter campaign<\/a>,\u00a0Brown has recently dedicated a large portion of that fundraising to charity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Frey \u201892<\/strong> Writer of international bestsellers\u00a0\u00a0<i>A Million Little Pieces<\/i> (2003) and <i>My Friend Leonard<\/i> (2005), as well as <i>Bright Shiny Morning<\/i> (2008), James Frey is CEO of media company Full Fathom Five. His new book, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00HU5NEQK?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bigjimind-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00HU5NEQK\" target=\"_blank\">Endgame The Calling<\/a>,<\/i> comes out on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisonian.com\/2014\/08\/features\/from-racetracks-to-race-relations-denisons-little-known-alumni\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Denisonian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Denisonian From racetracks to race relations: Denison\u2019s little-known alumni By David Allen and Carole Burkett, Sports Editor and Editor-in-Chief We all know about Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, and Richard Lugar, but who knew that we had a potato salad entrepreneur, top international pastry chef, and Indy500 winner in our ranks? Here are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}