{"id":14,"date":"2013-07-03T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1972classnews\/?p=14"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T19:05:49","slug":"wayne-messmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/07\/03\/wayne-messmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Messmer &#8217;72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/chicago-sports-media-watch\/2013\/07\/chicago-wolves-wayne-messmer\/\">Wayne Messmer&#8217;s<\/a> voice has been proudly associated with the National Anthem in Chicago for over thirty years. Messmer, known as &#8220;The Voice of Wrigley Field,&#8221; is the public address announcer for the Chicago Cubs. He sings The\u00a0<em>Star-Spangled Banner\u00a0<\/em>before Cubs games. He also has\u00a0sung as the featured vocalist for the Chicago Wolves, Chicago Sting, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bears, and Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>Messmer was one of four people inducted into the 2010 Signature Sinfonian class of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.<\/p>\n<p>Phi Mu Alpha\u00a0Sinfonia, which is the oldest and largest music fraternity for men, recognizes alumni members who have achieved a high standard of accomplishment in their field or profession.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Messmer\u2019s newest CD Release is So Lucky To Be Loving You.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/07\/Messmerbio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/07\/Messmerbio.jpg\" alt=\"Messmer(bio)\" width=\"175\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Messmer&#8217;s voice has been proudly associated with the National Anthem in Chicago for over thirty years. Messmer, known as &#8220;The Voice of Wrigley Field,&#8221; is the public address announcer for the Chicago Cubs. He sings The\u00a0Star-Spangled Banner\u00a0before Cubs games. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/07\/03\/wayne-messmer\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}