{"id":347,"date":"2018-03-31T23:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T03:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/?p=347"},"modified":"2018-03-31T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T03:05:42","slug":"with-don-at-nashvilles-grand-ole-opry-in-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/with-don-at-nashvilles-grand-ole-opry-in-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"With Don at Nashville&#8217;s Grand Ole Opry in 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don was my LFM thesis advisor back in 1991 but I remember him much more as a mentor than as an academic advisor. He was jovial and warm and enjoyed spending time with students even outside the classroom. I remember going to Nashville with him and several other students in 1991 to present some manufacturing research we had done together at an Operations Research conference. I was nervous. The day before the presentations, we all went to the Grand Ole Opry for a night of country music. As music acts alternated with on-stage ads for snake-skin boots and cheap charcoal on sale down at the local Piggly Wiggly, the anxiety melted away. It was all too funny to take the next day too seriously. A wonderful memory of a wonderful man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don was my LFM thesis advisor back in 1991 but I remember him much more as a mentor than as an academic advisor. He was jovial and warm and enjoyed spending time with students even outside the classroom. I remember going to Nashville with him and several other students in 1991 to present some manufacturing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/with-don-at-nashvilles-grand-ole-opry-in-1991\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;With Don at Nashville&#8217;s Grand Ole Opry in 1991&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgo.mit.edu\/don\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}