{"id":6523,"date":"2016-01-11T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6523"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:54:30","slug":"david-lapakko-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/11\/david-lapakko-3\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lapakko appears on AM 950 radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Lapakko<\/strong>, associate professor of communication studies, was interviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.am950radio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AM 950 radio<\/a> on January 9. He discussed his competitive success at the Great American Think-Off,\u00a0an annual exhibition of civil disagreement and argumentation.<\/p>\n<p>Lapakko was crowned \u201cAmerica\u2019s Greatest Thinker\u201d at the 23rd Great American Think-Off held in New York Mills, Minnesota, in June 2015. The debate question was, \u201cDoes Technology Free Us or Trap Us?\u201d and Lapakko argued for the liberating qualities of technology as he took home the prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lapakko, associate professor of communication studies, was interviewed on AM 950 radio on January 9. He discussed his competitive success at the Great American Think-Off,\u00a0an annual exhibition of civil disagreement and argumentation. Lapakko was crowned \u201cAmerica\u2019s Greatest Thinker\u201d at the 23rd Great American Think-Off held in New York Mills, Minnesota, in June 2015. 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":[3742,661,3655,3657],"class_list":["post-6523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-am-950","tag-communication-studies","tag-david-lapakko","tag-great-american-think-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","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=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}