{"id":53,"date":"2013-05-30T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2023-06-21T00:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T00:41:32","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/?page_id=53","title":{"rendered":"The Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-558\" src=\"http:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dave-photo.jpg\" alt=\"dave-photo\" width=\"200\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dave-photo.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dave-photo-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Dave Hoekstra has been a Chicago Sun-Times staff writer since 1985. His collection of Sun-Times travel columns, &#8220;Ticket To Everywhere,&#8221; was published in 2000 by Lake Claremont Press. His acclaimed collection of minor league baseball stories \u201cCougars and Snappers and Loons (Oh My!): A Midwest League Field Guide\u201d (Can\u2019t Miss Press, 2009). In 2013 he was recipent of the Studs Terkel Community Media Award from the Community Media Workshop in Chicago. He won a 1987 Chicago Newspaper Guild Stick O-Type Award for Column Writing. Dave wrote and co-produced the WTTW-Channel 11 PBS special: &#8220;The Staple Singers and the Civil Rights Movement,&#8221; nominated for a 2001-02 Chicago Emmy for a documentary program\/cultural significance. Dave loves the Chicago Cubs, supper clubs and Greek diners named the Golden Apple. He lives in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Hoekstra has been a Chicago Sun-Times staff writer since 1985. His collection of Sun-Times travel columns, &#8220;Ticket To Everywhere,&#8221; was published in 2000 by Lake Claremont Press. His acclaimed collection of minor league baseball stories \u201cCougars and Snappers and Loons (Oh My!): A Midwest League Field Guide\u201d (Can\u2019t Miss Press, 2009). In 2013 he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesupperclubbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}