{"id":5899,"date":"2015-06-05T21:32:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2017-07-24T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T19:07:32","slug":"david-lapakko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/05\/david-lapakko\/","title":{"rendered":"BringMeTheNews names David Lapakko among Great Thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Lapakko<\/strong>, associate professor of communication studies, has been named a finalist in the Great American Think-Off, an annual competition in which\u00a0hundreds of thinkers from across the United States and around the world submit essay answers to\u00a0a question posed by\u00a0the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, according to BringMeTheNews. Lapakko is a veteran of the competition and this year responded to the prompt, &#8220;Does Technology Free Us or Trap Us?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lapakko, associate professor of communication studies, has been named a finalist in the Great American Think-Off, an annual competition in which\u00a0hundreds of thinkers from across the United States and around the world submit essay answers to\u00a0a question posed by\u00a0the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, according to BringMeTheNews. Lapakko is a veteran of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3656,661,3655,3657],"class_list":["post-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-bringmethenews","tag-communication-studies","tag-david-lapakko","tag-great-american-think-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7766,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions\/7766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}