{"id":1034,"date":"2021-07-22T18:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2021-07-22T18:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:51:21","slug":"tanner-springer-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/2021\/07\/22\/tanner-springer-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanner Springer &#8217;06"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are sad to say that Tanner Springer passed away in Downs, Illinois, July 14, 2021 at the age of 37.\u00a0Tanner studied computer science and played baseball at Illinois Wesleyan. He worked as a software developer at State Farm for 13 years before transitioning to a job as a software engineer for Enterprise Holdings. He shared his love of sports with his family \u2014 especially his sons \u2014\u00a0cheering for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Bears and Chicago Blackhawks. Tanner also shared his love of sports with the many athletes he mentored as a youth sports coach. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, fishing and time with his loyal dogs. But most of all, he enjoyed being a father and spending time with his family. He is survived by his wife, three sons, two siblings, grandfather and many extended family members and friends.\u00a0You can read more in his obituary <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/obituaries\/tanner-g-springer\/article_04d592bb-d06e-51d3-a406-58bf224189f1.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sad to say that Tanner Springer passed away in Downs, Illinois, July 14, 2021 at the age of 37.\u00a0Tanner studied computer science and played baseball at Illinois Wesleyan. He worked as a software developer at State Farm for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/2021\/07\/22\/tanner-springer-06\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}