{"id":161,"name":"Stan Weir","url":"","description":"<strong>Stanley Weir<\/strong> (1921\u20132001) was a former merchant seaman, auto worker, teamster, and longshoreman. During his 20 years as a blue-collar worker he was a union organizer, shop steward, local union negotiating committee chairman, and newspaper editor. Later, he taught labor studies at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and wrote the essays collected in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Singlejack-Solidarity-Critical-American-Studies\/dp\/081664294X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493820196&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=singlejack+solidarity\">Singlejack Solidarity<\/a><\/em>. Weir\u2019s life was fictionalized in Harvey Swados\u2019 novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Standing-fast-Harvey-Swados\/dp\/B0006CAJU8\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493820740&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=harvey+swados\"><em>Standing Fast<\/em><\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/author\/stan_weir\/","slug":"stan_weir","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e12da1977b686c5213c697665fde9996915050063fab08d9982b7ff1d56970ec?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e12da1977b686c5213c697665fde9996915050063fab08d9982b7ff1d56970ec?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e12da1977b686c5213c697665fde9996915050063fab08d9982b7ff1d56970ec?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}