{"id":1074,"date":"2010-03-23T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T07:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2010\/03\/23\/derek-richey-01-changing-the-kansas-city-world\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T07:06:21","slug":"derek-richey-01-changing-the-kansas-city-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/03\/23\/derek-richey-01-changing-the-kansas-city-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Richey &#039;01 &#8211; Changing the (Kansas City) World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/derek(1).jpg\" \/><strong>Derek Richey &#8217;01<\/strong> did what many Wabash men do &#8211; saw a problem in the community and decided to fix it. &nbsp;He picked a big one.<\/p>\n<p>With the economic impact of the recent downturn now fully hitting the school systems in many states, Derek decided to help. &nbsp;It would have been easy to look for smaller problems to solve&#8230;but that he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to make sure things get done is to LEAD the effort &#8211; so Derek is running for the school board.<\/p>\n<p>For the full article, click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pitch.com\/plog\/2010\/02\/derek_richey_meet_the_school_board_candidates.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Good luck Derek!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Richey &#8217;01 did what many Wabash men do &#8211; saw a problem in the community and decided to fix it. &nbsp;He picked a big one. With the economic impact of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}