{"id":143775,"date":"2025-09-06T18:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/?p=143775"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:43:35","slug":"okermans-honored-as-friends-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/okermans-honored-as-friends-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Okerman&#8217;s honored as Friends of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250906friendeducation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-143777 size-full\" title=\"20250906friendeducation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250906friendeducation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250906friendeducation.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250906friendeducation-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sleepy Eye Education Association named Ray and Renee Okerman as their 2025-26 Friend of Education.<\/p>\n<p>The Okerman&#8217;s joins previous award winners Mel Cook and Duke Cook, Arneson Distributing, Dave Vosbeck, Julia Coulson, Darla Remus, Karen Okerman, Shari Hittesdorf, Denny Mangen, Mary Ann Christensen, Kathy Haala and Sandy Beito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sleepy Eye Education Association named Ray and Renee Okerman as their 2025-26 Friend of Education. The Okerman&#8217;s joins previous award winners Mel Cook and Duke Cook, Arneson Distributing, Dave Vosbeck, Julia Coulson, Darla Remus, Karen Okerman, Shari Hittesdorf, Denny Mangen, Mary Ann Christensen, Kathy Haala and Sandy Beito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 22:18:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143778,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143775\/revisions\/143778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}