{"id":266,"date":"2017-04-24T16:41:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/?p=266"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:41:33","slug":"professor-emeritus-publishes-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/2017\/04\/24\/professor-emeritus-publishes-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Emeritus Publishes Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2017\/04\/unnamed-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2017\/04\/unnamed-1-1.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2017\/04\/unnamed-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/27\/files\/2017\/04\/unnamed-1-1-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>A memoir by Dr. Loren Schmidterger, professor emeritus of English, titled <em>The Beginner\u2019s Cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas<\/em> is a collection of essays that recalls his early years on a Kansas farm during the Dust Bowl era. The reader follows Dr. Schmidtberger on his unlikely journey from a Midwestern farm to an urban university, Saint Peter\u2019s, where he would teach for over 50 years. First- hand accounts of Depression era farm life are presented with the same clarity and humor as are reports of campus life 20 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memoir by Dr. Loren Schmidterger, professor emeritus of English, titled The Beginner\u2019s Cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas is a collection of essays that recalls his early years on a Kansas farm during the Dust Bowl era. The reader follows Dr. Schmidtberger on his unlikely journey from a Midwestern farm to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}