{"id":362,"date":"2019-01-15T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=362"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:27:34","slug":"james-henson","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/james-henson\/","title":{"rendered":"James Henson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Henson directs the Texas Politics project and teaches in the Department of Government at The University of Texas, where he also received a doctorate. He helped design public interest multimedia for the Benton Foundation in Washington, D.C., in the late 1990s and has written about politics in general-interest and academic publications. He also serves as associate director of the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services unit at UT, where he has helped produce several award-winning instructional media projects. In 2008, he and Daron Shaw, a fellow UT government professor, established the first statewide, publicly available internet survey of public opinion in Texas using matched random sampling. He lives in Austin, where he also serves as a member of the City of Austin Ethics Review Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2014,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-362","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Director of the Texas Politics project and Professor in the Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Henson","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/362\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}