{"id":2155,"date":"2014-06-12T15:48:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2014-06-12T15:48:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:48:48","slug":"smith-anita-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, ANITA,  1942-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist. Born&#8211; Alexander City, Ala., in 1942. Education&#8211; graduated from School of Journalism at University of Alabama. Reporter for Atlanta newspaper and interested in medical subjects, being one of female reporters to write on open-heart surgery; covered Gov. Lurleen Wallace&#8217;s fight against cancer. In college received John Luskin Award for academic achievement and named &#8220;Headliner of the Year&#8221;; in 1966 won Douglass Cannon Award from Medical Association of Alabama; named Alabama&#8217;s Young Career Woman by Federation of Business and Professional Women&#8217;s Clubs; awarded certificate of achievement by Alabama Association of Mental Retardation, and certificate from Birmingham News for creative enterprise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham News, May 5, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Best Of Times. Birmingham, Ala.; The Best Of Times, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The Intimate Story of Lurleen Wallace; Her Crusade of Courage. Montgomery, Ala.; Communications Unlimited, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Noland Hospital, the Legacy. Fairfield, Ala.; L. Noland Foundation, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Noland, M.D., the Boss. Fairfield, Ala.; L. Noland Foundation, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist. Born&#8211; Alexander City, Ala., in 1942. Education&#8211; graduated from School of Journalism at University of Alabama. Reporter for Atlanta newspaper and interested in medical subjects, being one of female reporters to write on open-heart surgery; covered Gov. Lurleen Wallace&#8217;s fight against cancer. In college received John Luskin Award for academic achievement and named [&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-2155","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\/2155","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=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}