{"id":23209,"date":"2017-02-21T14:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T19:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23209"},"modified":"2017-02-24T07:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:20:57","slug":"bowden-announces-run-for-kennett-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23209","title":{"rendered":"Bowden announces run for Kennett school board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3284\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/markbowdenbypascalperich-2a444360010cec044e43a286b47bbdc49783c198-s51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3284\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3284\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/markbowdenbypascalperich-2a444360010cec044e43a286b47bbdc49783c198-s51-350x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Bowden<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Mark Bowden, the bestselling author of \u201cBlack Hawk Down\u201d and other titles, announced Tuesday he is running for a seat on the Kennett Consolidated School District Board this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A resident of Kennett Square Borough, Bowden is seeking the open seat for the borough on nine-member board, and plans to cross-file to run in both the Democratic and a Republican primaries this spring. He is currently\u00a0on the faculty of The University of Delaware as its Distinguished Writer in Residence.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bowden, 65, is the author of 13\u00a0books, and is a longtime journalist. He is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair magazine and The Atlantic. For more than 20 years he was a reporter and columnist for <em>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>. He and his wife Gail are residents of the borough, and sent all five of their children to public schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He has been a college professor at Loyola University and UD for sixteen years, and is stepping down later this year from his full-time position there. His wife, Gail, recently joined the board of The Bayard Taylor Memorial Library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a good time for me to offer my services to the community,\u201d Bowden said in a statement announcing his candidacy. \u201cWe love living in Kennett Square, and have been very impressed with its schools and with the library.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Mark Bowden, the bestselling author of \u201cBlack Hawk Down\u201d and other titles, announced Tuesday he is running for a seat on the Kennett Consolidated School District Board this year. A resident of Kennett Square Borough, Bowden is seeking the open seat for the borough on nine-member board, and plans to cross-file to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[451,8213,6518,581,8558],"class_list":["post-23209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-board-of-education","tag-election-2017","tag-featured","tag-kennett-consolidated-school-district","tag-mark-bowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23252,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions\/23252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}