{"id":93958,"date":"2019-05-17T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/walter-dear-donates-to-fort-lewis-college\/"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:15:55","slug":"walter-dear-donates-to-fort-lewis-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/walter-dear-donates-to-fort-lewis-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Dear donates to Fort Lewis College"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5294b8ba-aa40-4011-9fa5-62ac0f546ba0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1542\" height=\"982\" alt=\"Walter Dear gifted $100,000 to funds which help FLC students with outstanding fees and emergencies.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Walter Dear gifted $100,000 to funds which help FLC students with outstanding fees and emergencies.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Walter Dear, a longtime donor and friend of Fort Lewis College, gifted $100,000 to the Skyhawk Persistence Grant and Skyhawk Emergency Grant. These grants help students pay outstanding fees and continue with their education at FLC, as well as help cover in-semester emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Dear said he believes FLC makes a difference in the lives of many and he wanted to support students and the college in more ways than just scholarships. Dear has been a prolific donor to the college for 20 years, supporting music and the arts, the student newspaper, and other scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>The Persistence Grant is available to students in good academic standing with outstanding balances. The Skyhawk Emergency Grant will fund in-semester emergencies for students starting in fall 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear gifted $100,000 to funds which help FLC students with outstanding fees and emergencies.Durango Herald file Walter Dear, a longtime donor and friend of Fort Lewis College, gifted $100,000 to the Skyhawk Persistence Grant and Skyhawk Emergency Grant. These grants help students pay outstanding fees and continue with their education at FLC, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93958","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=93958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93958"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}