{"id":916,"date":"2014-10-27T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T18:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=916"},"modified":"2017-02-06T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:03:53","slug":"cannon-william-schlevoight-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"CANNON, WILLIAM SCHLEVOIGHT, 1918-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clergyman, editor. Born&#8211; Dececember 16, 1918, Meridian, Miss. Parents&#8211; Willis Street and Angela (Schlevoight) Cannon. Married&#8211; Nelwyn Nesmith, November 10, 1943. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1942; Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D., 1956. Reporter for the Meridian (Miss.) Star, 1936-1938; retail advertising manager for Sears, Roebuck and Company in Mississippi and North Carolina, 1946-1953; pastor of Southern Baptist churches in North Carolina and Texas, 1954-1965; editor of inspirational books, Broadman Press, 1965-1974; senior editor for Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1974-1977; and a ghostwriter and contract editor after 1977. Died November 27, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>W. S. Cannon, Hartsville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyday, Five Minutes With God. Nashville; Broadman Press, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>How High Are The Stars! Nashville; Broadman Press, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The Jesus Revolution. Nashville; Broadman Press, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>One Last Christmas. Nashville; Broadman Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tomorrow the World,&#8221; a drama in one act. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Clergyman, editor. Born&#8211; Dececember 16, 1918, Meridian, Miss. Parents&#8211; Willis Street and Angela (Schlevoight) Cannon. Married&#8211; Nelwyn Nesmith, November 10, 1943. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1942; Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D., 1956. Reporter for the Meridian (Miss.) Star, 1936-1938; retail advertising manager for Sears, Roebuck and Company in Mississippi and North Carolina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","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\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}