{"id":2087,"date":"2015-06-11T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2017-09-12T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:22:29","slug":"strayhorn-zora-shay-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"STRAYHORN, ZORA SHAY, 1909-1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Variously employed. Born&#8211;November 8,\u00a01909, in Ontario, Calif.; original name &#8220;Frances Imogene Shay.&#8221; Parents&#8211; Henry J. and Louise Meyer Shay.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Dixie Craig Strayhorn, 1948. Children&#8211; Adopted one child. Education&#8211;\u00a0Associate degree in Science,\u00a0 Northeast Alabama Junior College, 1978. \u00a0Held many different jobs in such places as Hawaii, Wyoming, California, and Alabama; moved to Mentone, Ala., 1954; lived in California, 1956-1960; returned to Mentone, 1960. Died August 11, 1998.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anniston Star, Jan. 6, 1987; and from her history of Mentone, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mentone, Alabama; a History. Mentone, Ala.; Mentone Area Preservation Association, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Variously employed. Born&#8211;November 8,\u00a01909, in Ontario, Calif.; original name &#8220;Frances Imogene Shay.&#8221; Parents&#8211; Henry J. and Louise Meyer Shay.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Dixie Craig Strayhorn, 1948. Children&#8211; Adopted one child. Education&#8211;\u00a0Associate degree in Science,\u00a0 Northeast Alabama Junior College, 1978. \u00a0Held many different jobs in such places as Hawaii, Wyoming, California, and Alabama; moved to Mentone, Ala., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","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=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}