{"id":18,"name":"Kenneth Best","url":"","description":"Ken Best served as editor of UCONN Magazine for 10 years. He is a co-host of the UConn 360 Podcast. He previously covered news and sports in Connecticut for <em>The New York Times<\/em>, edited the Weekend section for the <em>Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time<\/em>, wrote arts and culture stories syndicated by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and was the media coordinator for Yale-New Haven Hospital. During the summer of 2015 he hosted \u201cWalking a Blues Road,\u201d a weekly program on WHUS in Storrs based on the holdings of the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African-American Musical Culture at UConn\u2019s Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. He is the author of <em>Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated Record of Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll<\/em> (Pomegranate Books).","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/author\/keb02020\/","slug":"keb02020","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/55e248e0d2169167af6797786dcc1e2997e74713dfc05dba3b323d7f9a2cc5ab?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/55e248e0d2169167af6797786dcc1e2997e74713dfc05dba3b323d7f9a2cc5ab?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/55e248e0d2169167af6797786dcc1e2997e74713dfc05dba3b323d7f9a2cc5ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}