{"id":3500,"date":"2016-08-16T19:23:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compassmedianetworks.com\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2016-08-16T20:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:48:16","slug":"alma-mater-applause-for-sam-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/16\/alma-mater-applause-for-sam-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"Alma-mater applause for Sam Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to be recognized by your university years after you&#8217;ve graduated and moved on to bigger and better things. \u00a0The &#8220;steller&#8221; Sam Alex, host of Taste of Country Nights, is no exception. He was recently acknowledged in\u00a0his\u00a0college alma-mater Illinois State University magazine. \u00a0The former ISU Redbirds\u00a0Athletics&#8217; public address announcer\u00a0is now\u00a0&#8220;profiling country superstars&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0was recognized by the industry as among \u201cAudio\u2019s 30 Under 30.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sam Alex\u00a0was nominated by the Academy of Country Music Awards for <em>2016 National On-Air Personality of the Year<\/em>. \u00a0 \u00a0So&#8230;Goooo Redbirds and Go Sam Alex!!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.illinoisstate.edu\/2016\/08\/pause-applause-sam-alex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <em>Taste of Country Nights<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/album\/taste-of-country-nights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to be recognized by your university years after you&#8217;ve graduated and moved on to bigger and better things. \u00a0The &#8220;steller&#8221; Sam Alex, host of Taste of Country Nights, is no exception. He was recently acknowledged in\u00a0his\u00a0college alma-mater Illinois State University magazine. \u00a0The former ISU Redbirds\u00a0Athletics&#8217; public address announcer\u00a0is now\u00a0&#8220;profiling country superstars&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0was recognized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}