{"id":5300,"date":"2017-02-28T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2017-02-28T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:50:11","slug":"norm-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2017\/02\/28\/norm-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellar students inspire Norm Taylor to support scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/giving.ufv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Norm-Taylor-Physics-lab-instructor-4.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" \/>For Norm Taylor the inspiration for giving to UFV is all around him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust look at them,\u201d he says, gesturing to the students who have arrived early to do homework before the physics lab he is preparing for them officially starts. \u201cWe have so many smart, motivated students. How can you not want to help them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norm, who works as a lab instructor at UFV, has been a steady presence in the Physics department for 24 years, joining in 1993 as UFV prepared to launch a Bachelor of Science degree. [<a href=\"https:\/\/giving.ufv.ca\/stories\/stellar-students-inspire-norm-taylor-to-support-scholarships\/\">Read more from Investing in Students<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Norm Taylor the inspiration for giving to UFV is all around him. \u201cJust look at them,\u201d he says, gesturing to the students who have arrived early to do homework before the physics lab he is preparing for them officially starts. \u201cWe have so many smart, motivated students. How can you not want to help &#8230; <a title=\"Stellar students inspire Norm Taylor to support scholarships\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2017\/02\/28\/norm-taylor\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":5302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,169,58,6],"tags":[172,273],"class_list":["post-5300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-feature","category-news","category-physics","tag-physics","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}