{"id":442,"date":"2007-09-25T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T07:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2007\/09\/25\/sgt-john-jefferson-97-award-winner\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T07:36:53","slug":"sgt-john-jefferson-97-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2007\/09\/25\/sgt-john-jefferson-97-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. John Jefferson &#039;97 &#8211; Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/jackson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>John Jefferson, Wabash Class of 1997<\/strong>, was recently named <strong>Linguist of the Year in the United States Army<\/strong>. John, a History, French, and English triple major, is fluent in Arabic, Polish, French, Latin, and German and is currently teaching himself Turkish! He&#8217;s also working on a PhD!!! John&#8217;s served in Iraq and is now stationed in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s oldest son Henry, age 4, already speaks fluent German and English! It&#8217;s a little too early for his younger brother Oliver to be multi-lingual, reports John&#8217;s wife Alison.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s brother Paul, Class of 1992, is an attorney in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations, John! Well Done!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Jefferson, Wabash Class of 1997, was recently named Linguist of the Year in the United States Army. John, a History, French, and English triple major, is fluent in Arabic, Polish, French, [&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-442","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\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}