{"id":125362,"date":"2022-05-27T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=125362"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:48:56","slug":"stars-and-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/05\/27\/stars-and-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars and stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/army-rotc\">Wright State Army ROTC<\/a> cadets and the U.S. Army Recruiting Company from Dayton participated in a Military Appreciation Day at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniuniversity.net\/\">Mini University<\/a> on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Britney Leavelle, executive director at Mini University, worked with Wright State\u2019s ROTC Raider Battalion to respectfully replace the American flag in front of the Child Development Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur flag was a little tarnished from over the years,\u201d said Leavelle.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of schoolchildren gathered outside to watch as the old flag was lowered, meticulously folded, and swapped with a new flag as a Mini University staff member sang the national anthem during a flag replacement ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the students here to have a good sense of what the military is and know that we are here to serve them and the community,\u201d said Lt. Col. Anthony Gonzalez, professor of military science at Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>The students were given personalized dog tags from the Army ROTC to wear during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe enjoy supporting this community since we are part of it,\u201d said Gonzalez. \u201cI\u2019m glad that our team could come together and make this a special day for these students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State Army ROTC cadets and the U.S. Army Recruiting Company from Dayton participated in a Military Appreciation Day at Mini University. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/05\/27\/stars-and-bars\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":125366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4305,729,725,727,2039,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-rotc","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-military-veterans","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125362","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=125362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125578,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125362\/revisions\/125578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}