{"id":1574,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1574"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"lennard, william carver, 1941-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"LENNARD, WILLIAM CARVER, 1941-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researcher, realtor, poet.  Born&#8211;  July 20, 1941, Tuskegee.  Parents&#8211;  William  and Reoda (Turner) Lennard. Married&#8211;  Anita Liggins, June 6, 1964.  Children&#8211;  Two.  Education&#8211;  Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, B.S., 1963; Tuskegee Institute, M.S. in Food Science and Technology, 1968.  Research technician, Battelle Memorial Institute, 1964-1966; research technician, Tuskegee Institute, 1968; Director of Community Development, Community Action Agency, Tuskegee, 1968-1977; real estate salesman, 1977-; National Park Service, 1978-  .  Honors&#8211;  special achievement award, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1982; featured on television programs; his poetry has won special recognition and was selected for the Alabama State Poetry Sampler, in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Carver Lennard, Tuskegee.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Life, Love, Nature and You.  New York;  Vantage Press, 1976.  <\/p>\n<p>     Sand Castles.  Tuskegee;  McRaie&#8217;s Printing Service, 1985. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Best of the Best.  Chicago;  Path Press, 1984.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Researcher, realtor, poet. Born&#8211; July 20, 1941, Tuskegee. Parents&#8211; William and Reoda (Turner) Lennard. Married&#8211; Anita Liggins, June 6, 1964. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, B.S., 1963; Tuskegee Institute, M.S. in Food Science and Technology, 1968. Research technician, Battelle Memorial Institute, 1964-1966; research technician, Tuskegee Institute, 1968; Director of Community Development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}