{"id":1210,"date":"2015-06-13T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2025-03-26T21:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:45:43","slug":"sousa-archives-staff-and-flat-sousa-say-goodbye-to-zak-emily-and-rory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2015\/06\/13\/sousa-archives-staff-and-flat-sousa-say-goodbye-to-zak-emily-and-rory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sousa Archives Staff and Flat Sousa Say Goodbye to Zak, Emily, and Rory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4481\" style=\"width: 403px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-Says-Goodbye-to-Zak-Emily-Rory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4481\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-Says-Goodbye-to-Zak-Emily-Rory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-Says-Goodbye-to-Zak-Emily-Rory.jpg 403w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-Says-Goodbye-to-Zak-Emily-Rory-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured (left to right) researcher, Scott Schwartz, Somer Pelczar,Thornton Miller, Hannah Jellen, Katie Nichols, Zak Boerger, Emily Schneider with Flat Sousa, and Rory Grennan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Flat Sousa and the staff of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music gave their colleagues, Zak Boerger, Emily Schneider, and Rory Grennan, a fond farewell on Wednesday as they prepare to leave the Sousa family to follow their careers as archivists, special collections librarians, and outstanding musicians.\u00a0 In what has become a standing tradition for the Sousa crew, a rousing version of &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; was performed for Emily and Rory in celebration of their recent birthdays, and the singing was\u00a0 lead by the maestro himself, Mr. Flat Sousa.\u00a0 Zak, Emily, and Rory will be missed, but never forgotten.\u00a0 <em>Bon voyage<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat Sousa and the staff of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music gave their colleagues, Zak Boerger, Emily Schneider, and Rory Grennan, a fond farewell on Wednesday as they prepare to leave the Sousa family to follow their careers as archivists, special collections librarians, and outstanding musicians.\u00a0 In what has become a standing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}