{"id":1701,"date":"2020-09-16T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2020-09-16T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:14:10","slug":"introducing-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2020\/09\/16\/introducing-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1702 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/09\/Legacy-rev2-1-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" \/><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legacy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (published by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acupressbooks.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACU Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) tells the story of the Dodge Jones Foundation and the generous family who made it possible. Ruth Legett Jones and her daughter, Judy Matthews, were the driving forces behind the foundation, founded in 1954 and named in memory of Mrs. Matthews\u2019 brother.\u00a0 Author Jay Moore writes, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legacy <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is a combination of human tale, family tale, and the tale of a city,&#8221; The result was a quiet transformation of Abilene and West Texas that improved the lives of countless children, citizens, and organizations.\u00a0 Autographed copies are available at Texas Star Trading Company in-store or online. For more details, click<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/texasstartrading.com\/products-page\/autographed-books\/legacy-the-dodge-jones-family-and-foundation\/?fbclid=IwAR2CC8T9Mb8lrwmF_rczPjPsLWs9LfC6RNLKS1WTbFuz6svqq9uBz6yp1fo\"><b>here<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy (published by ACU Press) tells the story of the Dodge Jones Foundation and the generous family who made it possible. Ruth Legett Jones and her daughter, Judy Matthews, were the driving forces behind the foundation, founded in 1954 and named in memory of Mrs. Matthews\u2019 brother.\u00a0 Author Jay Moore writes, \u201cLegacy is a combination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}