{"id":174371,"date":"2021-07-27T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=174371"},"modified":"2021-06-22T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:13:43","slug":"uconn-magazine-double-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/07\/uconn-magazine-double-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Double Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health EMS coordinator Peter Canning brings a unique perspective to emergency care. When not overseeing pre-hospital services for the expansive system, he serves as a paramedic himself with 25 years of experience in Hartford. \u201cSometimes I\u2019ll read a report and wonder why a paramedic did something a certain way. And then I\u2019ll be out there the next week and it\u2019s like, \u2018Okay, now I know.\u2019 It\u2019s a different level of understanding.\u201d One other hat he wears is author. A graduate of the prestigious University of Iowa Writer\u2019s Workshop and a former speechwriter for U.S. Senator and Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker, Canning is the author of five books, most recently \u201cKilling Season\u201d from Johns Hopkins University Press. Named an Amazon Editors\u2019 Pick for nonfiction, it takes readers on a ride-along through the street-level devastation of America\u2019s opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2021\/06\/22\/double-jeopardy\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health EMS coordinator Peter Canning published his latest book, on the opioid crisis, while battling the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":174372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235,179,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-174371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-health","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 16:21:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174373,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174371\/revisions\/174373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/174372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174371"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=174371"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=174371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}