{"id":66,"date":"2018-02-05T05:39:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2018-03-12T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:25:11","slug":"where-are-they-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/where-are-they-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bandworld.org\/MagOnline\/Issue54\/Images\/Simon1.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Austin\" width=\"347\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><span class=\"style14\"><strong>Year of Graduation<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2022 2000<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\"><br \/>\n<strong>Current Position<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2022 Band, Choir and Technology teacher at Murray Middle School<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\"><br \/>\n<strong>Time in<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"style14\"><strong>current position<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2022 Since the fall (filling the void left by a veteran teacher). I will retire soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style14\"><strong><em>Name some accomplishments or awards since graduation<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\">CTAP Level 3 Techmentor is similar to a music Masters I guess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style14\">I am proud of my tune I just put online (iTunes, Spotify, etc.) called, &#8220;Gone but not forgotten&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\">SCSBOA Educator of Distinction<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Walmart Teacher of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who Among American High School Teachers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\"><strong><em>How did ABC help prepare you for these?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\">ABC got me thinking of music at the higher level, especially what I teach students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\"><strong><em>What was your most memorable ABC experience?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\">Too many but one highlight was playing string bass on the concert with Gary Foster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\"><strong><em>Who are your biggest influences\/mentors?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\">David Caffey, Mike Bankhead and Bruce Dinkins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\"><strong><em>What advice do you have for young directors?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style14\">Never let a 13-year-old ruin your whole day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year of Graduation&nbsp;\u2022 2000 Current Position&nbsp;\u2022 Band, Choir and Technology teacher at Murray Middle School Time in&nbsp;current position&nbsp;\u2022 Since the fall (filling the void left by a veteran teacher). I will retire soon. Name some accomplishments or awards since graduation CTAP Level 3 Techmentor is similar to a music Masters I guess. I am proud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[30,31,29],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-where-are-they-now","tag-abc","tag-grad","tag-simon-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}