{"id":2115,"date":"2022-09-01T10:32:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2022-09-01T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T16:32:38","slug":"the-frank-waters-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/the-frank-waters-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frank Waters Award&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy September!<br><br>It&#8217;s a quiet beautiful day here in Wyoming.  The aspens and cottonwoods just have their first touches of yellow, heralding the arrival of autumn a bit early, but it&#8217;s been a cool summer.  <br><br>We were just informed that we will be the recipients of the 2023 Frank Waters Award.  &#8220;The Frank Waters Award stands for exemplary literary achievement, as well as a canon of writing that communicates a deep understanding, celebration, and love of our human nature and peoples of all races.&#8221;  Previous recipients are: Barbara Kingsolver, Tony Hillerman, and John Nichols.<br><br>It&#8217;s a great privilege to receive an award that bears Frank Waters&#8217; name.  The award is given by the Pike&#8217;s Peak Library District, and we are deeply grateful for this honor.<br><br>The award ceremony will be held in Colorado Springs on June 3, 2023.  <br><br>Michael and Kathleen<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kathleen-ONeal-Gear-and-W.-Michael-Gear-2-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" data-id=\"2118\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kathleen-ONeal-Gear-and-W.-Michael-Gear-2-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kathleen-ONeal-Gear-and-W.-Michael-Gear-2-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kathleen-ONeal-Gear-and-W.-Michael-Gear-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kathleen-ONeal-Gear-and-W.-Michael-Gear-2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kathleen-ONeal-Gear-and-W.-Michael-Gear-2-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kathleen-ONeal-Gear-and-W.-Michael-Gear-2-2048x1360.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy September! It&#8217;s a quiet beautiful day here in Wyoming. The aspens and cottonwoods just have their first touches of yellow, heralding the arrival of autumn a bit early, but it&#8217;s been a cool summer. We were just informed that we will be the recipients of the 2023 Frank Waters Award. &#8220;The Frank Waters Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}