{"id":121629,"date":"2022-04-04T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=121629"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:56:14","slug":"cozy-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/04\/04\/cozy-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Cozy comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Fleece blankets for sick and traumatized children were cut and tied by Wright State University students and employees on March 29 in the Student Union Atrium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Numerous volunteers tied more than 300 blankets during the eight-hour blanket-making marathon. The completed blankets were donated to local social service agencies and area shelters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s truly amazing to get these all these blankets done for people that need it,\u201d said Izabella Schenck, a sophomore crime and justice studies major who volunteered to tie dozens of blankets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Wright State National Residence Hall Honorary chapter, a residential student organization that focuses on service and recognition, purchased the fleece to make the blankets and sponsored the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One blanket cost between $10 and $18 to make. Wright State has donated over 6,000 blankets in previous years to Dayton-area Project Linus. Since 1995, Project Linus has donated over 8.6 million blankets nationally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For more information about Project Linus and how to get involved visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectlinus.org\/\">projectlinus.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleece blankets for sick and traumatized children were cut and tied by Wright State University students and employees in the Student Union Atrium. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/04\/04\/cozy-comfort\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":121642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2025,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-community-service","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121629","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=121629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121637,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121629\/revisions\/121637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}