{"id":10621,"date":"2021-08-02T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10621"},"modified":"2021-12-02T19:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:11:53","slug":"professor-michael-j-lansing-featured-in-smithsonian-magazine-story-on-the-history-of-wheaties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/02\/professor-michael-j-lansing-featured-in-smithsonian-magazine-story-on-the-history-of-wheaties\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Michael J. Lansing Featured in Smithsonian Magazine Story on the History of Wheaties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10623 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/08\/Smithsonian-Magazine-300x82.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/08\/Smithsonian-Magazine-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/08\/Smithsonian-Magazine.png 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Smithsonian Magazine on July 26 published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/how-wheaties-became-breakfast-champions-180978246\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHow Wheaties Became the \u2018Breakfast of Champions,&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a story on the history of Wheaties cereal and its ties to athletics. Professor Michael J. Lansing, chair of Augsburg University\u2019s Department of History, was one of the primary sources for the story. Lansing, who is working on a book on the history of the milling industry in Minnesota, spoke about the product development and marketing behind the cereal. He also noted that Major League Baseball first began broadcasting games on television, thanks to the influence of Wheaties, which was a major advertiser during both radio and television sports broadcasts. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithsonian Magazine on July 26 published \u201cHow Wheaties Became the \u2018Breakfast of Champions,&#8221; a story on the history of Wheaties cereal and its ties to athletics. Professor Michael J. Lansing, chair of Augsburg University\u2019s Department of History, was one of the primary sources for the story. Lansing, who is working on a book on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10739,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions\/10739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}