{"id":8022,"date":"2011-09-29T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:43:10","slug":"alumnus-turns-a-life-long-passion-into-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/09\/29\/alumnus-turns-a-life-long-passion-into-a-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus turns a life-long passion into a career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>Wright State alumnus Leslie Irene Benson is an example of the different creative paths a person can take with an education from the university. Benson, a 2004 graduate with a degree in English, combined the writing skills she learned at WSU with her passion for music to create the pop-piano cabaret band Irene &amp; Reed.<\/p>\n<p>Benson pursued a career in journalism and marketing post-graduation, but claims music as her first love.<br \/>\n\u201cFirst and foremost, I turned to singing as my main instrumentation, but I have been writing music, poetry and lyrics since my youth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/theguardianonline.com\/2011\/09\/28\/alumnus-turns-a-life-long-passion-into-a-career\/\">TheGuardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) Wright State alumnus Leslie Irene Benson is an example of the different creative paths a person can take with an education from the university. Benson, a 2004 graduate with a degree in English, combined the writing skills she learned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/09\/29\/alumnus-turns-a-life-long-passion-into-a-career\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8024,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions\/8024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}