{"id":1956,"date":"2009-02-23T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/23\/rip-steven-jones"},"modified":"2009-02-23T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:34:00","slug":"rip-steven-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Steven Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Steve Jones had a rare gift.<\/p>\n<p>He came to Amarillo in 2003 to take over as president of Amarillo College. He wasn&#8217;t here all that long &#8212; but it seemed as if he&#8217;d been here for decades.<\/p>\n<p>That is a testament to the way he became part of the community fabric. He became an eloquent spokesman for AC. In his private moments, he could be, um, a pithy critic of those who had done the school wrong. He didn&#8217;t much care for Gov. Rick Perry&#8217;s veto of community college-related legislation in 2007 and spoke, well, quite <em>candidly<\/em> about what he thought of the governor at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jones&#8217; impact on Amarillo was immediate, and significant. He died during the weekend of cancer. He&#8217;ll be missed in ways the college staff, faculty and students don&#8217;t yet know.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jones had a rare gift. He came to Amarillo in 2003 to take over as president of Amarillo College. He wasn&#8217;t here all that long &#8212; but it seemed as if he&#8217;d been here for decades. That is a testament to the way he became part of the community fabric. He became an eloquent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP, Steven Jones<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}