{"id":487,"date":"2011-08-05T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2011-09-27T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:36:33","slug":"donald-ray-kennard-1937-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/donald-ray-kennard-1937-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Ray Kennard 1937-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-488\" style=\"width: 80px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"488\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/donald-ray-kennard-1937-2011\/kennard\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennard.jpg?fit=80%2C103&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"80,103\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kennard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Donald Ray Kennard&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennard.jpg?fit=80%2C103&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-488 \" title=\"kennard\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennard.jpg?resize=80%2C103\" alt=\"Donald Ray Kennard\" width=\"80\" height=\"103\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Ray Kennard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When it rains it pours. On today&#8217;s news I heard that Don Kennard died early Friday morning. He had been in a local hospital since he had a brain aneurysm rupture last weekend. Mr. Kennard had been my academic advisor at the LSU athletic department &#8230; back in the day and was a member of the LSU Athletic Department from 1963 to 2001. He was also a member of the LSU Football radio broadcast team.<\/p>\n<p>He was a veteran Baton Rouge state Representative ,serving eight terms in the Louisiana House. He was first elected in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>He was a resident of the town of Central. His wife is the former Ramona Norris. His children are Robin Lisa Kennard and Stacy Rae Kennard Doucet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it rains it pours. On today&#8217;s news I heard that Don Kennard died early Friday morning. He had been in a local hospital since he had a brain aneurysm rupture last weekend. Mr. Kennard had been my academic advisor at the LSU athletic department. He will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,15],"tags":[108,106],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-personalphilosophical","tag-lsu","tag-obituary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-7R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}