{"id":1405,"date":"2016-02-02T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2021-01-15T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:16:49","slug":"ken-busby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wallis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Founder<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Michael Wallis is a best-selling author, award-winning reporter, historian, and biographer of the American West. He is a popular speaker and in 2006 joined an all-star cast in Pixar Studio\u2019s animated feature film\u00a0CARS\u00a0as the voice of the Sheriff of Radiator Springs. The film was a celebration of Route 66 and the Sheriff has continued to direct traffic in\u00a0CARS 2\u00a0and the upcoming\u00a0CARS 3.<\/p>\n<p>Michael has published 18 books and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. His book\u00a0Route 66: The Mother Road\u00a0is credited for sparking a resurgence of interest in the historic highway. Other titles by Michael include\u00a0The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate; Billy The Kid: The Endless Ride; David Crockett: The Lion of the West;\u00a0and\u00a0The Wild West 365.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder Michael Wallis is a best-selling author, award-winning reporter, historian, and biographer of the American West. He is a popular speaker and in 2006 joined an all-star cast in Pixar Studio\u2019s animated feature film\u00a0CARS\u00a0as the voice of the Sheriff of Radiator Springs. The film was a celebration of Route 66 and the Sheriff has continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10329,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/10329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}