{"id":13582,"date":"2019-08-23T21:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T21:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13582"},"modified":"2019-08-23T21:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T21:01:36","slug":"kansas-airport-inspector-has-40-years-with-kdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/kansas\/kansas-airport-inspector-has-40-years-with-kdot\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Airport Inspector Has 40 Years with KDOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Wiens-photoedit-884x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13583\" width=\"280\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Wiens-photoedit-884x1024.jpg 884w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Wiens-photoedit-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption> <em>John Wiens checks highway plans in his District Five KDOT office in Hutchinson. Wiens has reached 40 years of service with KDOT. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>John Wiens, Hutchinson-based Engineering Technician Senior,\nhas reached 40 years of dedicated service to the Kansas Department of\nTransportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiens, who is a pilot, has performed a variety of roles for\nKDOT, including taking care of highway construction plans and records and\ncomputer-aided drafting, also inspects 32 airports in District Five, and he has\nbeen a longtime local coordinator for KDOT\u2019s State Fair booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiens joined KDOT in 1979, working for the Hutchinson\nConstruction Office, inspecting highways and bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt must be a pretty good place to work, for a person to\nhang in 40 years,\u201d Wiens said. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t seem like I\u2019ve been here that\nlong. Time just kind of gets by you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His supervisor, Bryan Hamel, said: \u201cJohn does an excellent\njob of working with district and area employees as well as customers outside of\nthe department. His knowledge and experience are vital to ensuring that the\nplans and files are kept up and stored properly. John is an avid aircraft\nenthusiast who is efficient and detailed when performing airport inspections\nfor District Five.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wiens, Hutchinson-based Engineering Technician Senior, has reached 40 years of dedicated service to the Kansas Department of Transportation. Wiens, who is a pilot, has performed a variety of roles for KDOT, including taking care of highway construction plans and records and computer-aided drafting, also inspects 32 airports in District Five, and he has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13584,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}