{"id":907,"date":"2013-05-18T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2013-05-24T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T21:02:53","slug":"in-memorium-mike-dunham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"In Memorium: Mike Dunham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Dunham, 69, co-owner and founder of Walla Walla&#8217;s <strong>Dunham Cellars<\/strong> passed away on May 18.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his son, Eric, Mike opened one of the Walla Walla area&#8217;s earliest wineries in 1997. He retired from his &#8220;second job&#8221; in the insurance industry in 2001 to became general manager of the winery on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n<p>My encounters with Mike at the Walla Walla tasting room were brief, but memorable. He was personable and helpful and over the years his winery turned out some really great wine.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to you Mike, and thank you for your contributions to the Washington wine industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Dunham, 69, co-owner and founder of Walla Walla&#8217;s Dunham Cellars passed away on May 18. Along with his son, Eric, Mike opened one of the Walla Walla area&#8217;s earliest wineries in 1997. He retired from his &#8220;second job&#8221; in the insurance industry in 2001 to became general manager of the winery on a full-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heard-through-the-grapevine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}