{"id":11405,"date":"2020-06-10T22:32:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/steve-parks-1975-2020\/11405\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T22:32:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:32:27","slug":"steve-parks-1975-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/steve-parks-1975-2020\/11405\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Parks: 1975-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.maritimeprofessional.com\/images\/maritime\/w200\/steve-parks-19752020-photo-courtesy-113675.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Parks, a long-tenured and well-known maritime media marketing persona, passed away suddenly of a heart attack on June 7, 2020. He was 45.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Steve began his career in maritime publishing in 1998 selling the <em>Shipping World &amp; Shipbuilding<\/em>.<em>\u00a0<\/em>He was hired by John Labdon Associates (JLA) as senior media consultant and was group sales manager for <em>Marine Propulsion<\/em> magazine from 2003-2007. He went on to serve as sales and development director at Riviera Maritime Media from 2007-2014.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Steve started his own marketing firm Wake Media to deliver business-to-business media and communications services to clients in the maritime and offshore sectors.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who knew Steve will know how important Wake Media was to him and as a team we want to ensure that we maintain and continue his business and legacy,&#8221; Wake Media said in a statement announcing his passing. &#8220;He truly was one of a kind, with a passion for life and everything maritime.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Among Steve&#8217;s passions were maritime, football and his family, particularly his three teenage sons.<\/p>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Parks, a long-tenured and well-known maritime media marketing persona, passed away suddenly of a heart attack on June 7, 2020. He was 45. Steve began his career in maritime publishing in 1998 selling the Shipping World &amp; Shipbuilding.\u00a0He was hired by John Labdon Associates (JLA) as senior media consultant and was group sales manager &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1469,7491],"class_list":["post-11405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-parks","tag-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}