{"id":52614,"date":"2020-07-21T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortezs-rodney-ritthaler-inducted-into-bandmasters-hall-of-fame\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:38:01","slug":"montezuma-cortezs-rodney-ritthaler-inducted-into-bandmasters-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortezs-rodney-ritthaler-inducted-into-bandmasters-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez\u2019s Rodney Ritthaler inducted into Bandmasters Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e96045d4-17e3-4e64-a11f-38259ceec784&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1629\" height=\"1608\" alt=\"Rodney Ritthaler\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Rodney Ritthaler<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Retired music educator and Montezuma Cortez High School Band Director Rodney Ritthaler was recently awarded the prestigious Colorado Bandmasters Association\u2019s 2020 Hall of Fame Award.<\/p>\n<p>Ritthaler retired from M-CHS in 2018 after a successful teaching career. This honor is awarded to one Colorado band director each year. Ritthaler is only the 45th music educator to receive this award since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The 400-member Colorado Bandmasters Association was asked to vote for this year\u2019s award recipient, and Ritthaler was inducted into the CBA Hall of Fame at the annual convention membership meeting July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RitthalerThe Journal File Retired music educator and Montezuma Cortez High School Band Director Rodney Ritthaler was recently awarded the prestigious Colorado Bandmasters Association\u2019s 2020 Hall of Fame Award. Ritthaler retired from M-CHS in 2018 after a successful teaching career. This honor is awarded to one Colorado band director each year. Ritthaler is only the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52614"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}