{"id":1876,"date":"2017-10-02T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T03:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2018-11-13T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:59:22","slug":"class-of-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2017\/10\/02\/class-of-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1986 &#8211; Ron Ekstrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506998474540_3431\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1878 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-1022x1024.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2017\/10\/Profile-Pic.jpg 2044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/><\/a>Ron Ekstrand, Class of 1986,<\/span><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506998474540_3523\">\u00a0<\/b>was recently named the Interim CEO for the national office of Easterseals located in Chicago. After eight years of working at an affiliate in Missouri as the President and COO of Easterseals Midwest,\u00a0Ekstrand\u00a0moved to Chicago and\u00a0joined the national office team in March 2016. Easterseals is the largest provider of disability services in the country and help people with disabilities live, learn, work and play in their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Ekstrand, Class of 1986,\u00a0was recently named the Interim CEO for the national office of Easterseals located in Chicago. After eight years of working at an affiliate in Missouri as the President and COO of Easterseals Midwest,\u00a0Ekstrand\u00a0moved to Chicago and\u00a0joined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2017\/10\/02\/class-of-1986\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"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-1876","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\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}