{"id":1186,"date":"2014-05-15T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2014-05-15T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:01:22","slug":"transgender-uno-professor-retiring-after-38-years-of-inspiring-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/15\/transgender-uno-professor-retiring-after-38-years-of-inspiring-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender UNO professor retiring after 38 years of inspiring students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\" target=\"_blank\">Omaha World-Herald<\/a>, a short profile of Professor\u00a0Meredith Bacon, one of UNO&#8217;s most honorable professors and an inspiration to thousands of students:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Faculty Senate president at the University of Nebraska at Omaha completed a third one-year term Wednesday, but not consecutively \u2014 and now under a different name from the first two terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo as Wally,\u201d the out\u00adgoing president said, \u201cand one as Meredith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meredith Bacon, formerly known as Walter M. Bacon Jr., is believed to be the first transgender person in America elected as a college or university faculty leader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20140515\/NEWS\/140519174\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha World-Herald, a short profile of Professor\u00a0Meredith Bacon, one of UNO&#8217;s most honorable professors and an inspiration to thousands of students: The Faculty Senate president at the University of Nebraska at Omaha completed a third one-year term Wednesday, but not consecutively \u2014 and now under a different name from the first two terms. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/15\/transgender-uno-professor-retiring-after-38-years-of-inspiring-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transgender UNO professor retiring after 38 years of inspiring students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}