{"id":24339,"date":"2013-06-21T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T21:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=24339"},"modified":"2013-06-21T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T21:11:46","slug":"executive-editor-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/06\/executive-editor-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Editor Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6644\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6644\" title=\"Curt-Middleton_814970\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Curt-Middleton_814970.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curt Middleton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Legendary newsman Curt Middleton,60, \u00a0passes away \u00a0June 21, 2013. Middleton suffered a heart attack on June 17, 2013. Funeral arrangements are pending in Mississippi and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton joined the\u00a0Lehigh Acres Gazette\u00a0staff as an owner and executive editor. Long-time residents will recall Middleton\u2019s presence in the community where in the course of time he contributed business and editorial guidance at both the\u00a0News-Star\u00a0and\u00a0Citizen\u00a0newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLehigh Acres is a special place for my family and always will be,\u201d Middleton said. \u201cNo matter where we ever roam, the call from Lehigh Acres is that strong that we have to return. People attach themselves to certain places to be near family. Fortunately for us, all of Lehigh Acres is family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Middleton was in charge of all editorial operations and used his acquired skills as a hardcopy newspaper publisher to help guide the business end as well. Middleton was an Internet \u201cpioneer\u201d in the newspaper business helping develop many of the early online appearances of local newspapers including the\u00a0News-Star. His credits include developing newspaper websites in Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee as well as Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton raised his four children in Lehigh Acres and, along with running newspapers here, was actively involved in Little League baseball, Pop Warner football and parents\u2019 associations supporting school activities such as the Lehigh Lightning Marching Band.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton is survived by his wife Beverly, two daughters Rebecca and Samantha, son Jeremiah, and son Jason who was killed on Jan. 20 2011 while conducting\u00a0combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary newsman Curt Middleton,60, \u00a0passes away \u00a0June 21, 2013. Middleton suffered a heart attack on June 17, 2013. Funeral arrangements are pending in Mississippi and Florida. Middleton joined the\u00a0Lehigh Acres&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}