{"id":8939,"date":"2020-09-23T09:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2020-09-23T09:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:48:58","slug":"uw-system-interim-president-tommy-thompson-wisconsineye-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8939","title":{"rendered":"UW System Interim President Tommy Thompson WisconsinEye Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Wisconsin System Interim President Tommy Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/wiseye.org\/2020\/09\/22\/newsmakers-tommy-thompson-uw-system-and-covid-19\/\">was interviewed<\/a> yesterday by Steve Walters of <a href=\"https:\/\/wiseye.org\/\">WisconsinEye<\/a>. Thompson spoke about the recent spike in COVID-19 cases at many UW System campuses, including UW-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson told Walters he expects in-person instruction to resume at campuses that have implemented two-week pauses in an effort to drive down cases of the virus. UW-Madison is in the second week of <a href=\"https:\/\/smartrestart.wisc.edu\/university-shifts-to-two-weeks-of-remote-instruction-quarantines-two-residence-halls\/\">its pause of on-campus classes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-3ed90d72c191278a097670a0d20df48f ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:600px; max-height:600px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Newsmakers: Tommy Thompson &quot;UW System and COVID-19&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gKhcr2vsy-U?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Wisconsin System Interim President Tommy Thompson was interviewed yesterday by Steve Walters of WisconsinEye. Thompson spoke about the recent spike in COVID-19 cases at many UW System campuses, including UW-Madison. Thompson told Walters he expects in-person instruction to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8939\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[163,165,137,88],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-covid19","tag-tommy-thompson","tag-uw-system","tag-uw-madison","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}