{"id":3017,"date":"2024-03-28T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2024-03-28T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:20:31","slug":"kris-condon-84-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2024\/03\/28\/kris-condon-84-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Condon &#8217;84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kris Condon &#8217;84<\/strong> recently came out with her second book, Fragments of Flossmoor: A Series of Essays on the Interesting, Curious, and Unique in Our Village. All of the proceeds are going to the Veterans\u2019 Wall of Honor project, for which Kris is the corporate secretary-treasurer. The Wall of Honor is a long time in coming. Her paternal grandfather was the American Legion Post commander in 1945 who spearheaded the original World War II Honor Roll project, but the temporary marker they installed that day disappeared to history decades ago. Her father was 13 years old when the 1945 marker was dedicated, and at 92, he\u2019s the corporate vice president of Flossmoor Veterans\u2019 Memorial, which will benefit from the sales of this book. Read\u00a0more <a href=\"https:\/\/flossmoorvets.square.site\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3018\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2024\/03\/Cover-Graphic-238x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2024\/03\/Cover-Graphic-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2024\/03\/Cover-Graphic.png 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Condon &#8217;84 recently came out with her second book, Fragments of Flossmoor: A Series of Essays on the Interesting, Curious, and Unique in Our Village. All of the proceeds are going to the Veterans\u2019 Wall of Honor project, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2024\/03\/28\/kris-condon-84-3\/\">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-3017","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\/3017","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\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}