{"id":319,"date":"2017-08-31T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-ngra.pantheonsite.io\/?p=319"},"modified":"2019-01-03T19:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:26:55","slug":"nominations-due-by-october-20-for-the-rich-smith-distinguished-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/2017\/08\/31\/nominations-due-by-october-20-for-the-rich-smith-distinguished-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations Due by October 20 for the Rich Smith Distinguished Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard (Rich) Smith of\u00a0Paraiso Vineyards and Smith Family Wines\u00a0in California&#8217;s Monterey wine region was first and foremost a family man, and also a successful grape grower, winery owner and respected colleague.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Through his significant and selfless contributions of time, energy and funds to organizations that advance the American grape and wine industry, he came to be known as\u00a0a highly effective, collegial and tireless leader.<\/p>\n<p>Three of those organizations\u2014NGWI,\u00a0WineAmerica\u00a0and the\u00a0Winegrape Growers of America\u2014collaborated to create the Rich Smith Distinguished Service Award to honor his spirit and legacy. It recognizes people who demonstrate similar qualities and make a similarly positive impact on the industry. John Martini of Anthony Road Wines won the first-ever award at the Unified Symposium last January. Click now to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/N7DKG3F\">nomination criteria and simple nomination form<\/a> and make your nomination(s) by October 20, 2017. We look forward to honoring the recipient and the memory of Rich Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard (Rich) Smith of\u00a0Paraiso Vineyards and Smith Family Wines\u00a0in California&#8217;s Monterey wine region was first and foremost a family man, and also a successful grape grower, winery owner and respected colleague.\u00a0Through his significant and selfless contributions of time, energy and funds to organizations that advance the American grape and wine industry, he came to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ngwi-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}