{"id":25452,"date":"2019-09-29T20:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T20:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/?p=25452"},"modified":"2020-02-12T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:03:12","slug":"david-lapakko-the-great-american-think-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/2019\/09\/29\/david-lapakko-the-great-american-think-off\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lapakko &#038; The Great American Think-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Written by Preston Peterson<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25453\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/5d8bdaf7ea6d1.image_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-25453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/01\/5d8bdaf7ea6d1.image_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"David Lapakko holds medals from Great American Think Off\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Lapakko wins <em>Great American Think Off<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulcher.org\/think-off\/the-great-american-think-off\/\">Great American Think-Off<\/a> is a debate competition that happens every year in New York Mills, Minnesota. Communication Studies Associate Professor David Lapakko is a multi-year competitor and winner of this competition. Check out a recent conversation in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hometownsource.com\/sun_current\/community\/richfield\/richfield-resident-enters-great-american-think-off-again\/article_79e9060c-dfd8-11e9-9dc2-e7cc90bf38f7.html\">Sun Current<\/a> for Lapakko\u2019s thoughts on debate in society today and The Great American Think-Off.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Preston Peterson The Great American Think-Off is a debate competition that happens every year in New York Mills, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2],"tags":[18,65],"class_list":["post-25452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-recognition","category-faculty","tag-awards","tag-david-lapakko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25452"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25501,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions\/25501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}