{"id":1947,"date":"2019-08-24T22:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=1947"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:02:44","slug":"david-a-peyton-sr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/david-a-peyton-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"David A. Peyton, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1970<\/h3>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\"><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-4\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/HOF-Peyton-300x415.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot image of David A. Peyton\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-8\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p>David Peyton began working for the Huntington Publishing Company while he was still a student at Marshall University. After graduation he continued with the company and moved into editor of the editorial page for The Huntington Advertiser. Peyton wrote two syndicated columns, served as a columnist for The Herald-Dispatch for 30 years, wrote columns for The Charleston Daily Mail for a short time and he was on the ground covering the 1970 airplane crash of Marshall\u2019s football team. He is a student of folk culture and the co-author of eight books about computer publishing. He is a long-time member of a recognized local band, 1937 Flood.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1970<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":1654,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1947","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1947\/revisions\/3113"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}