  {"id":7002,"date":"2016-04-22T17:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T17:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2021-07-22T05:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:22:38","slug":"diana-pierces-plans-to-use-masters-discussed-in-star-tribune-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/22\/diana-pierces-plans-to-use-masters-discussed-in-star-tribune-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Pierce&#8217;s plans to use Augsburg graduate degree discussed in Star Tribune column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune - logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Retiring KARE 11 anchor <strong>Diana Pierce MAL &#8217;16<\/strong> recently credited the graduate\u00a0degree she is scheduled to receive at\u00a0Augsburg College for her optimism toward the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll see what doors are open that weren&#8217;t in the past, as a result of getting a master&#8217;s. For me, I look at it as an additional set of skills,&#8221; Pierce\u00a0said. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking into several different opportunities. [The advanced degree] lets me think there is life after broadcasting. Now I feel prepared for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pierce recently announced her retirement after having worked for the station for more than 32 years.<\/p>\n<p>Read C.J.: Diana Pierce is pleased her KARE11 exit included a little something extra on the Star Tribune site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retiring KARE 11 anchor Diana Pierce MAL &#8217;16 recently credited the graduate\u00a0degree she is scheduled to receive at\u00a0Augsburg College for her optimism toward the future. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see what doors are open that weren&#8217;t in the past, as a result of getting a master&#8217;s. For me, I look at it as an additional set of skills,&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[3404,3227,1817,2692],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-diana-pierce","tag-kare-11","tag-master-of-arts-in-leadership","tag-star-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002","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\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10604,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions\/10604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}