{"id":212,"date":"2017-05-09T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu\/?p=212"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:42:41","slug":"in-memory-of-dr-tom-pleger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/blog\/in-memory-of-dr-tom-pleger\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Dr. Tom Pleger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with sad hearts that we share the news that Dr. Tom Pleger, our University&#8217;s president, and one of our 2017 TEDxLSSU speakers (as well as a TEDxLSSU 2015 speaker), passed away on Sunday, May 7, 2017. \u00a0A champion for higher education and lifelong learning, Dr. Pleger will be missed by all of us. \u00a0We share his 2017 talk below, in memory of Tom:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttfmake-embed-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px;\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kv3MlUAlfjI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can watch Tom&#8217;s 2015 TEDxLSSU talk here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hXc3L4X8AV4\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/hXc3L4X8AV4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with sad hearts that we share the news that Dr. Tom Pleger, our University&#8217;s president, and one of our 2017 TEDxLSSU speakers (as well as a TEDxLSSU 2015 speaker), passed away on Sunday, May 7, 2017. \u00a0A champion for higher education and lifelong learning, Dr. Pleger will be missed by all of us. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8iT8w-3q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/tedxlssu2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}