{"id":193124,"date":"2025-12-31T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/?p=193124"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:27:57","slug":"contributor-limelight-alton-barnhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/slug\/contributor-limelight\/contributor-limelight-alton-barnhart\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributor Limelight: Alton Barnhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/staff-members\/alton-barnhart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alton Barnhart<\/a> started as an Editorial Intern in 2022 and has since evolved to become the maven of local music and film, the keeper of the <em>SLUG<\/em> archives and the wittiest voice in the office. There\u2019s no piece of media he can\u2019t review or subject he can\u2019t interview \u2014 even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/community\/talking-to-myself-an-interview-with-a-ventriloquist-dummy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ventriloquist dummy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alton Barnhart started as an Editorial Intern in 2022 and has since evolved to become the maven of local music, the keeper of the SLUG archives and more. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/slug\/contributor-limelight\/contributor-limelight-alton-barnhart\/\" title=\"Contributor Limelight: Alton Barnhart\" class=\"read-more\">&hellip;&nbsp;read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":193125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[359],"tags":[20750,30819,1437,27422],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}