{"id":842,"date":"2015-01-20T10:16:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=842"},"modified":"2015-05-21T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:07:11","slug":"james-jim-edwards-65-50th-reunion-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2015\/01\/20\/james-jim-edwards-65-50th-reunion-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"James &#8220;Jim&#8221; Edwards &#8217;65: 50th Reunion Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim has some memories he would like to share:<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brief synopsis of my life thus far:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taught Jr. High choir for 6 years in the Chicago area, then High School choir for 8. Along the way got Master of Music, and became a pro musician and entertainer. Married and divorced quickly. Married Diane, 11 years younger (now almost 41 years, 4 children (Cory- a music minister &amp; composer at 6500 person church), then 3 daughters (absolutely wonderful), 6 grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Became Director Sales and Marketing for several companies in South Bend, Ea. Ohio and finally St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Most importantly, Jesus straightened out my life, so am a fire-breathing Christian, authoring 100+ articles; taking 15+ mission trips to rebuild cities\/lives thru Service International (includes Kosovo, OK City F-5 tornado, floods, hurricanes, etc.); and 10+year volunteer for \u201cGive Kids A Smile (a dental mission organization).<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now, a professional Magician, Musician, private lesson teacher, selling shoes as a Master Shoe Fitter (last one left in St. Louis area); performing full shows at retirement homes (75-100 a year) working on changing kids lives by substitute teaching from a Godly perspective almost daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim has some memories he would like to share: Here\u2019s a brief synopsis of my life thus far: 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taught Jr. High choir for 6 years in the Chicago area, then High School choir for 8. Along the way got Master &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2015\/01\/20\/james-jim-edwards-65-50th-reunion-memories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reunions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}