{"id":64255,"date":"2015-10-25T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64255"},"modified":"2015-10-24T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T14:48:32","slug":"local-pastor-receives-national-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64255","title":{"rendered":"Local Pastor Receives National Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tom-Burgess.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64256\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tom-Burgess.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Tom Burgess\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tom-Burgess.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tom-Burgess.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Canastota, NY &#8211; Oct. 2015) Thomas Burgess, a\u00a0casework supervisor in the Onondaga County Department of Adult and Long Term Care Services\u2019 Adult Protective division, was recently honored at the\u00a026th Annual National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA)\u00a0Conference held Sept. 29 through Oct. 1\u00a0in Orlando, Fla. He\u00a0was recognized with the\u00a02015 Spirit of NAPSA Award\u00a0given to a front-line Adult Protective Services (APS) staff person in recognition of significant contributions to the growth and development of the APS program in the local community as well as to the field of abuse intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Burgess\u00a0is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he received his undergraduate degree in Speech Communications and Education before doing post-graduate work at Le Moyne College to earn certification in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.\u00a0\u00a0After serving for two decades in\u00a0the field of\u00a0education, he began working for Onondaga County.\u00a0 He is also an ordained minister, formerly with Redeemer Church in Utica and\u00a0now pastor of Hope Christian Fellowship in Canastota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Canastota, NY &#8211; Oct. 2015) Thomas Burgess, a\u00a0casework supervisor in the Onondaga County Department of Adult and Long Term Care Services\u2019 Adult Protective division, was recently honored at the\u00a026th Annual National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA)\u00a0Conference held Sept. 29 through Oct. 1\u00a0in Orlando, Fla. He\u00a0was recognized with the\u00a02015 Spirit of NAPSA Award\u00a0given to a front-line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-gIn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tom-Burgess.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}