{"id":1972,"date":"2013-06-24T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2016-08-12T12:16:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T19:16:56","slug":"taylor-clement-allen-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"TAYLOR, CLEMENT ALLEN, 1900-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Variously employed. Born&#8211; in 1900 in Pratt City, Ala. Parents&#8211; Belton O&#8217;Neil and Minnie Allen Taylor. Married&#8211;Violet Lawjeck, May 19, 1926. \u00a0At age of 12 worked as miner, later as soda jerk, garage mechanic, singer and\u00a0actor on Broadway, in vaudeville, and on radio; actor in musical comedy in California in 1930; worked with U.S. Bureau of Engraving; finally became bartender for Childs Restaurant chain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham News, June 16, 1954.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diamond in the Coalpit. New York; Vantage Press, 1954.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Variously employed. Born&#8211; in 1900 in Pratt City, Ala. Parents&#8211; Belton O&#8217;Neil and Minnie Allen Taylor. Married&#8211;Violet Lawjeck, May 19, 1926. \u00a0At age of 12 worked as miner, later as soda jerk, garage mechanic, singer and\u00a0actor on Broadway, in vaudeville, and on radio; actor in musical comedy in California in 1930; worked with U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}