{"id":209462,"date":"2024-09-12T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=209462"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:03:58","slug":"a-life-in-writing-alumni-and-award-winning-journalist-leon-zimmerman-returns-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2024\/09\/12\/a-life-in-writing-alumni-and-award-winning-journalist-leon-zimmerman-returns-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life in Writing: Alumni and Award-Winning Journalist Leon Zimmerman Returns to Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-nine years after graduating from Montclair State University, Leon Zimmerman &#8217;59 returns to reflect on his life as a writer. A member of the Harness Racing Communicators Hall of Fame and honored by the American Political Science Association in 1969 for \u201cDistinguished Reporting of Public Affairs,&#8221; Zimmerman has had a successful career writing about sports and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman will return to campus on Wednesday, September 18 to talk about his experiences after graduation before taking questions from the audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, September 18<br \/>\n1:30 &#8211; 2:30 p.m.<br \/>\nDickson Hall 177, Brantl Lecture Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-nine years after graduating from Montclair State University, Leon Zimmerman &#8217;59 returns to reflect on his life as a writer. A member of the Harness Racing Communicators Hall of Fame and honored by the American Political Science Association in 1969 for \u201cDistinguished Reporting of Public Affairs,&#8221; Zimmerman has had a successful career writing about sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":209463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209464,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209462\/revisions\/209464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}