{"id":1122,"date":"2016-04-18T09:26:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2016-08-19T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:29:31","slug":"presidential-bio-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2016\/04\/18\/presidential-bio-wilder\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Biography: William H. Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Wilder graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1873, and was the first alumni to become president of the institution. He was born in Greenfield, Illinois on July 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 1849. Wilder worked on a farm as a boy and later taught \u201ccountry school.\u201d He held pastorates in five Illinois towns and was presiding elder of the Decatur district at age 34.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2016\/04\/Wilder-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1119\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2016\/04\/Wilder-1-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wilder\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2016\/04\/Wilder-1-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/files\/2016\/04\/Wilder-1.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilder graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1873, and was the first alumni to become president of the institution. He was born in Greenfield, Illinois on July 7th, 1849. Wilder worked on a farm as a boy and later taught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2016\/04\/18\/presidential-bio-wilder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,115,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-campus-administration","category-presidents","category-research-files"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}