{"id":5920,"date":"2015-06-19T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:17:59","slug":"david-lapakko-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/19\/david-lapakko-2\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lapakko wins Great American Think-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-19-at-12.07.06-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-19 at 12.07.06 PM\" width=\"185\" height=\"39\" \/>David Lapakko<\/strong>, associate professor of communication studies, was crowned &#8220;America&#8217;s Greatest Thinker&#8221; at the 23rd annual Great American Think-Off held in New York Mills, Minnesota, in mid-June.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s debate question was, &#8220;Does Technology Free Us or Trap Us?&#8221; and Lapakko argued for the liberating qualities of technology as he took home the prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lapakko, associate professor of communication studies, was crowned &#8220;America&#8217;s Greatest Thinker&#8221; at the 23rd annual Great American Think-Off held in New York Mills, Minnesota, in mid-June. This year&#8217;s debate question was, &#8220;Does Technology Free Us or Trap Us?&#8221; and Lapakko argued for the liberating qualities of technology as he took home the prize. &nbsp;<\/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":[661,3655,3657,3270],"class_list":["post-5920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-communication-studies","tag-david-lapakko","tag-great-american-think-off","tag-sun-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920","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=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}