{"id":1969,"date":"2017-10-11T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2017-10-11T22:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T22:05:51","slug":"king-of-roasting-max-howell-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/king-of-roasting-max-howell-3\/","title":{"rendered":"King of Roasting (Max Howell-3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1978 to 1991, Howell held an annual roast of state political figures. Roastees included Bill Foster, John Paul Capps, Clarence E. Bell, W. D. \u201cBill\u201d Moore, Jerry P. Bookout, and others. This fundraiser provided scholarships to needy high school students to attend college.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1970\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_01_doc01_dm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1970\" src=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_01_doc01_dm-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Front cover of second annual Max Howell Roast program featuring a charactacure of Bill Foster putting with an Exxon gas pump and golf bag in the background.\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_01_doc01_dm-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_01_doc01_dm-768x1198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_01_doc01_dm-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_01_doc01_dm.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front cover of second annual Max Howell Roast program featuring a caricature of Bill Foster putting with an Exxon gas pump and golf bag in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1971\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_05_doc01_dm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1971\" src=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_05_doc01_dm-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"Front cover of tenth annual Max Howell Roast featuring a charactiture of State Representative J. L. (Jim) Shaver of Wynne, Arkansas.\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_05_doc01_dm-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_05_doc01_dm-768x1124.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_01_na_04_05_doc01_dm-699x1024.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front cover of tenth annual Max Howell Roast featuring a caricature of State Representative J. L. (Jim) Shaver of Wynne, Arkansas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1972\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_05_na_83_02_pho01_dm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1972\" src=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_05_na_83_02_pho01_dm-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Max Howell poses with a fourteen high school men and women who were awarded $1,000 scholarships to attend college. The money was raised from the annual Max Howell roast.\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_05_na_83_02_pho01_dm-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_05_na_83_02_pho01_dm-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/files\/2017\/10\/ualr-ms-0238_05_na_83_02_pho01_dm-1024x753.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Howell poses with a group of young women who were awarded $1,000 scholarships to attend college. The money was raised from the annual Max Howell roast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\"><div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<p>From 1978 to 1991, Howell held an annual roast of state political figures. Roastees included Bill Foster, John Paul Capps, Clarence E. Bell, W. D. \u201cBill\u201d Moore, Jerry P. Bookout, and others. This fundraiser provided scholarships to needy high school&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/king-of-roasting-max-howell-3\/\" class=\"more-link\"><br \/>\n\t\tContinue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;King of Roasting (Max Howell-3)&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/king-of-roasting-max-howell-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">\n\t\tContinue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;King of Roasting (Max Howell-3)&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-max-howell","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ualrexhibits.org\/characters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}