{"id":3139,"date":"2014-05-05T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2017-10-05T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T18:12:08","slug":"casey-ron-1951-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"CASEY, RON, 1951-2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter; newspaper editor.\u00a0 Born\u00a0\u00a0August 21, 1951, Midfield.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; J.B. and Ruby Lois Casey. Married&#8211;Margie Brooke, 1979.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 University of Alabama, BA, 1973.\u00a0\u00a0Writer for The Birmingham News 1973-2000; editorial page editor, 1998-2000.\u00a0 1991&#8211;awarded Pulitzer Prize. 1992&#8211;Finalist for the National Headliners Award from the Press Club of Atlantic City.\u00a0 1994&#8211;nominated for a second Pulitzer and for a National Education Writers Award.\u00a0\u00a0 Died February 22, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Birmingham News, February 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint author;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the Love of Alabama; Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>What They Won&#8217;t Tell You about your Taxes.\u00a0 Birmingham News, 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter; newspaper editor.\u00a0 Born\u00a0\u00a0August 21, 1951, Midfield.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; J.B. and Ruby Lois Casey. Married&#8211;Margie Brooke, 1979.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 University of Alabama, BA, 1973.\u00a0\u00a0Writer for The Birmingham News 1973-2000; editorial page editor, 1998-2000.\u00a0 1991&#8211;awarded Pulitzer Prize. 1992&#8211;Finalist for the National Headliners Award from the Press Club of Atlantic City.\u00a0 1994&#8211;nominated for a second Pulitzer and for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}