{"id":2009,"date":"2014-04-02T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:22:05","slug":"tucker-earl-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"TUCKER, EARL LEE, 1904-1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist, humorist, \u00a0legislator. Born&#8211; July 25, 1904 in Thomasville, Ala. Parents&#8211; Austico Busbee and Lula Mae (Hall) Tucker. Education&#8211; attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Managing editor Thomasville Echo, later called Thomasville Times, 1926-1959. Wrote a column, &#8220;Rambling Roses and Flying Bricks,&#8221; that was published in some 40 newspapers and magazines, 1934-1964. Alabama state legislator, 1930-34, 1938-50. Chairman of\u00a0state Democratic Executive Committee.\u00a0 Elected to Alabama Newspaper Hall of Honor, 1972. Died April 7, 1964.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the Nuts Aren&#8217;t on Trees. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>How Not to Worry about the Love Life of Spiders. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Rambling Roses and Flying Bricks. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist, humorist, \u00a0legislator. Born&#8211; July 25, 1904 in Thomasville, Ala. Parents&#8211; Austico Busbee and Lula Mae (Hall) Tucker. Education&#8211; attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Managing editor Thomasville Echo, later called Thomasville Times, 1926-1959. Wrote a column, &#8220;Rambling Roses and Flying Bricks,&#8221; that was published in some 40 newspapers and magazines, 1934-1964. Alabama state legislator, 1930-34, [&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-2009","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\/2009","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=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}