{"id":18094,"date":"2021-12-10T17:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=18094"},"modified":"2021-12-10T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:11:45","slug":"meri-mass-retiring-jan-31-as-polk-arts-alliance-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/12\/10\/meri-mass-retiring-jan-31-as-polk-arts-alliance-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Meri Mass Retiring Jan 31 as Polk Arts Alliance Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk Arts Alliance Executive Director Meri Mass prepares to retire on a personal walk of fame leaving a trail of accomplishments as an arts advocate and collaborator for arts and sports tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Meri.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Meri.png 620w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Meri-300x169.png 300w\" \/><figcaption>Meri Mass <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meri Mass officially retires Jan. 31 after 12 years as executive director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/polkarts.org\/who-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polk Arts Alliance<\/a>, founded in 2004 and now representing&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/polkarts.org\/who-we-are\/cultural-arts-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 50 visual, music and performance art entities<\/a>. A search for a new director is underway. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.havenmagazines.com\/haven\/arts\/polk-arts-alliance\/article_d089e57a-d3a1-11e7-94fb-27ec2aa30429.html\">Haven<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk Arts Alliance Executive Director Meri Mass prepares to retire on a personal walk of fame leaving a trail of accomplishments as an arts advocate and collaborator for arts and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1936],"class_list":["post-18094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-meri-mass-retiring-jan-31-as-polk-arts-alliance-executive-director"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}