{"id":1586,"date":"2018-08-15T12:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:13:03","slug":"lawson-thomas-reuben-1908-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"LAWSON, THOMAS REUBEN, 1908-1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator, coach. Born&#8211; May 31, 1908, Greensburg, Ind. Parents&#8211; Robert and Maude (Parker) Lawson. Married&#8211; Gretchen Geneva Brown, March 16, 1940. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College, B.A., 1937. Employed, Jefferson County Board of Education, 1938-1942; Bechtel-McCone defense plant, 1942-1944; basketball and football coach, Ramsey High School, Birmingham, 1942-1972. Member&#8211; Heart of Dixie Railroad Club. Died April 8, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Lawson, Jr., Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The First Baptist Church of Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala.; First Baptist Church, 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator, coach. Born&#8211; May 31, 1908, Greensburg, Ind. Parents&#8211; Robert and Maude (Parker) Lawson. Married&#8211; Gretchen Geneva Brown, March 16, 1940. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College, B.A., 1937. Employed, Jefferson County Board of Education, 1938-1942; Bechtel-McCone defense plant, 1942-1944; basketball and football coach, Ramsey High School, Birmingham, 1942-1972. Member&#8211; Heart of Dixie Railroad Club. [&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-1586","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\/1586","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=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}