{"id":947,"date":"2014-06-25T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=947"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:48:12","slug":"cason-clarence-1898-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"CASON, CLARENCE, 1898-1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reporter, university professor. Born&#8211; December 20, 1898, Ragland. Parents&#8211; Eugene P. and Sarah Coleman Cason. Married&#8211; Louise Elliott Rickerman, 1927. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Attended the University of Alabama, 1913-1917, where he edited the Crimson-White; elected to Phi Beta Kappa; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1925. Joined the U.S. Army and served as an aerial machine gunner in France during World War I. Worked for the Birmingham News, the Louisville Courier-Journal, Washington Times, and New York Times. Faculty member at the University of Minnesota, 1925-1928; the University of Alabama 1928-1935. Died May 8, 1935.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bailey Thomson, &#8220;Clarence Cason&#8217;s Shade,&#8221; Alabama Heritage, Spring 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction to the 1983 reprint of 90 Degrees in the Shade. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>90 Degrees in the Shade. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1935.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Reporter, university professor. Born&#8211; December 20, 1898, Ragland. Parents&#8211; Eugene P. and Sarah Coleman Cason. Married&#8211; Louise Elliott Rickerman, 1927. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Attended the University of Alabama, 1913-1917, where he edited the Crimson-White; elected to Phi Beta Kappa; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1925. Joined the U.S. Army and served as an aerial machine [&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-947","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\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}