{"id":115551,"date":"2021-11-12T13:57:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=115551"},"modified":"2021-11-12T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:57:48","slug":"easy-glider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/11\/12\/easy-glider\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy glider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Two fraternity brothers at Wright State University raised more than $400 to fight cancer \u2014 and they did it without leaving their chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Since 2006, the Alpha Beta Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma at Wright State has annually held the Rock-A-Thon. Fraternity brothers sit in a rocking chair and rock for 24 hours straight to raise money for the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Jeffrey Shehee, a senior studying public health, and Shemarr Rice, a senior majoring in psychology, rotated over the course of 24 hours taking turns in the chair. The rocking duo began at midnight on Oct. 7 and ended at midnight on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis is a prime example of simple things matter in life,\u201d said Rice. \u201cIt takes a whole lot of grit to get through 24 hours of sitting in a rocking chair.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two fraternity brothers at Wright State University raised more than $400 to fight cancer \u2014 and they did it without leaving their chair. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/11\/12\/easy-glider\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":115555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115559,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115551\/revisions\/115559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}