{"id":12004,"date":"2024-05-02T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=12004"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:41:27","slug":"two-iconic-trailblazers-lost-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/two-iconic-trailblazers-lost-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Toledo Legends Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have lost two iconic trailblazers in our community this week. As a \u201cToledo kid\u201d I grew up hearing these names. Hearing the voice of \u201cCharlie Chuck\u201d with his iconic \u201cWhat\u2019s my name? Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!\u201d is burned into my memory. Both of my parents were TPS educators, so I often heard them speak of \u201cCrys\u201d as they discussed what was happening in the school system. So many times after I became Director of Toledo Excel he would greet me so warmly and offer encouragement and sage advice. Legendary men who are now ancestors. 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As a \u201cToledo kid\u201d I grew up hearing these names. Hearing the voice of \u201cCharlie Chuck\u201d with his iconic \u201cWhat\u2019s my name? Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!\u201d is burned into my memory. Both of my parents were TPS educators, so I often heard them speak of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[23],"class_list":["post-12004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover_story","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12006,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004\/revisions\/12006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12004"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=12004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}