{"id":2349,"date":"2021-05-07T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2021-05-07T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:08:04","slug":"larry-ekin-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2021\/05\/07\/larry-ekin-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Ekin &#8217;76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ekin &#8217;76 currently works as a Contact Tracer for the State of Maryland, serving as a Peer Mentor and Inbound Triage Agent as well as a contact tracer. &#8220;When I was going through my cancer surgery and subsequent radiation treatment, I realized the psychological importance of feeling like somebody was on my side. Part of my responsibilities as a contact tracer allow me to extend that feeling to others. So, my involvement as a contact tracer is motivated, at least in part, by a sense of paying my respect to the people who gave me that support when I needed it.&#8221; Ekin will soon observe his one year anniversary of contact tracing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ekin &#8217;76 currently works as a Contact Tracer for the State of Maryland, serving as a Peer Mentor and Inbound Triage Agent as well as a contact tracer. &#8220;When I was going through my cancer surgery and subsequent radiation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2021\/05\/07\/larry-ekin-76\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"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-2349","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\/2349","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\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}