{"id":29240,"date":"2020-11-10T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=29240"},"modified":"2020-11-10T09:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T15:04:33","slug":"apsu-alum-jeffery-gray-competing-in-food-networks-holiday-baking-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/11\/10\/apsu-alum-jeffery-gray-competing-in-food-networks-holiday-baking-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU alum Jeffery Gray competing in Food Network\u2019s &#8220;Holiday Baking Championship&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Austin Peay State University (APSU) alum Jeffery Gray, a fine arts major turned baker, is competing in this year\u2019s &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/shows\/holiday-baking-championship\" >Food Network \u201cHoliday Baking Championship.<\/a>&#8221; In the first episode, which aired on November 2nd, Gray is given the nickname \u201cSanta from Atlanta\u201d because his love for creativity and baking shined.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_504265\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Austin-Peay-State-University-alum-Jeffery-Gray.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504265\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-504265\" title=\"Austin Peay State University alumni Jeffery Gray. (Food Network)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Austin-Peay-State-University-alum-Jeffery-Gray-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University alumni Jeffery Gray. (Food Network)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-504265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University alumni Jeffery Gray. (Food Network)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gray found out he was on the show in April and announced he was going to be on the show on October 22nd on his bakery\u2019s Facebook page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope you will please watch and cheer all of us on, I was in the company of 11 other amazing bakers (now friends) and it was an experience of a lifetime,\u201d Gray wrote in the announcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gray&nbsp;launched&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/papabearbakery\" >Papa Bear Bakery<\/a>&nbsp;in Atlanta,&nbsp;Georgia, earlier this year after spending&nbsp;33&nbsp;years in&nbsp;the advertising industry, according to the show\u2019s website. He got his inspiration for baking from his mother and grandmother and hopes to carry on their legacy of baking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gray graduated from APSU in 1986 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising and design.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoliday Baking Championship\u201d airs at 8:00pm CT every Monday. <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>To learn more&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can see Gray\u2019s bakery at its Facebook page,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/papabearbakery\" >www.facebook.com\/papabearbakery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For more about the APSU Department of Art + Design, go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/art-design\" >www.apsu.edu\/art-design<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Austin Peay State University (APSU) alum Jeffery Gray, a fine arts major turned baker, is competing in this year\u2019s &#8220;Food Network \u201cHoliday Baking Championship.&#8221; In the first episode, which aired on November 2nd, Gray is given the nickname \u201cSanta from Atlanta\u201d because his love for creativity and baking shined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,4680,30841,7841,262,512,825,34997,34996],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7BC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29241,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29240\/revisions\/29241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}