{"id":1839,"date":"2009-06-08T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:37:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:37:36","slug":"john-leach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2009\/06\/john-leach\/","title":{"rendered":"John Leach, May 27, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Leach, associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the Neag School of Education, died May 27. He was 84. He joined the UConn faculty in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>His fields of research specialization included second language acquisition, teaching English as a second language, dual language instruction, and Caribbean cultures. He was known for his innovative courses.<\/p>\n<p>Donations in his memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 1004, Meriden, CT 06405.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Leach, associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the Neag School of Education, died May 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 07:40:23","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\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36630,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/36630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}