{"id":5362,"date":"1958-06-01T05:20:08","date_gmt":"1958-06-01T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2013-06-11T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T22:41:27","slug":"walter-fink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1958\/06\/01\/walter-fink\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Fink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Fink was, by all reports, a straight arrow. A former air force colonel who still experimented with model airplanes, he brought a military sensibility to the ninth-grade science classroom of Peoria&#8217;s Central High. Outside the classroom, he served as class sponsor of the Hi-Y Club and School Banking Club. Here he is pictured in the 1958 <em>Crest<\/em>, the high school&#8217;s yearbook.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Pryor and Walter Fink did not quite see eye-to-eye. In March 1956, Fink tried to remove Richard bodily from his classroom, and Richard took a swing at him. This was grounds for expulsion, and Richard never returned to ninth grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Fink was, by all reports, a straight arrow. A former air force colonel who still experimented with model airplanes, he brought a military sensibility to the ninth-grade science classroom of Peoria&#8217;s Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,378,119,26],"tags":[240,371,370],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-of-richard-pryor","category-3-young-richard","category-1953-1962","category-schooled","tag-central-high-school","tag-expulsion","tag-walter-fink"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}