{"id":2202,"date":"2015-07-27T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2015-07-27T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T14:24:27","slug":"jason-willis-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/2015\/07\/jason-willis-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Willis \u201901"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/Jason-Willis-2001-News.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1856 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/Jason-Willis-2001-News.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Willis - 2001, News\" width=\"200\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>Jason Willis, General Manager of Willis Auto Campus, has been honored by Business Record\u2019s Forty Under 40 list.<\/p>\n<p>The Willis name is well-known in Greater Des Moines, Iowa, possibly as much for the family\u2019s philanthropy as for its success selling automobiles.\u00a0Jason Willis is carrying on the tradition on both counts.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t start out to be a car salesman. Willis\u2019 first desire was to be a pediatrician, and he went to St. Olaf College as a pre-med student. While there, he decided that maybe he should stick with the automobile business.\u00a0Willis said his parents set the example for community involvement, especially in organizations related to children and health care.\u00a0Still, you can\u2019t ignore that car connection. Willis\u2019 parents met at Betts Cadillac. His grandfather kicked the whole thing into gear on the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>When Willis was doing study-abroad trips in Australia, he wound up working for a then-25-year-old car salesman who operated dealerships for several lines of automobiles, including Volvos.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Willis, General Manager of Willis Auto Campus, has been honored by Business Record\u2019s Forty Under 40 list. The Willis name is well-known in Greater Des Moines, Iowa, possibly as [&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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-75","tag-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}