{"id":26,"date":"2025-11-19T03:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:32:19","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image border-img\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"463\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1929\" style=\"width:363px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author.jpg 463w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<strong>John Clendening<\/strong> is also the author of \u201cLove Letters to Sports: Moments in Time and the Ties That Bind\u201d (2011) and \u201cSimple Glory: The Search for the Soul of an American Town\u201d (2018). He is a founding principal of Clients First Marketing &amp; Communications\u2122, a co-host of the \u201cOn the Offense\u201d podcast and an assistant professor of practice in advertising and brand strategy at the University of North Texas. Clendening and his wife, Jean, live in Dallas and are parents of their five human children and their three canine ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:260px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0John Clendening is also the author of \u201cLove Letters to Sports: Moments in Time and the Ties That Bind\u201d (2011) and \u201cSimple Glory: The Search for the Soul of an American Town\u201d (2018). He is a founding principal of Clients First Marketing &amp; Communications\u2122, a co-host of the \u201cOn the Offense\u201d podcast and an assistant &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1929,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}