{"id":137148,"date":"2023-04-04T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=137148"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:01:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:01:01","slug":"twist-and-shout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/04\/04\/twist-and-shout\/","title":{"rendered":"Twist and shout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.dancemarathon.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&amp;eventID=4742\">Wright State University\u2019s Raiderthon<\/a> hosted a 12-hour dance marathon to raise money for sick children on April 1 in the Student Union Apollo Room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis year we have nearly 300 participants registered at the event,\u201d said Amber Barga, a senior majoring in communication studies and Raiderthon president. \u201cI think people want to come because it\u2019s a giant party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At the dance marathon, members of the Wright State Miracle Makers celebrated the culmination of their yearlong fundraising efforts with dancing, food, games, guest speakers and live entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This year\u2019s marathon raised $50,687. Since 2013, Raiderthon has raised awareness and over $450,000 for Dayton Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Raiderthon was hosted by the Wright State Miracle Makers, a division of The Children\u2019s Miracle Network, which supports local children\u2019s hospitals. All proceeds from Raiderthon go toward a fund at Dayton Children\u2019s Hospital that helps families pay their hospital bills, meals and parking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University\u2019s Raiderthon\u00a0hosted a 12-hour dance marathon to raise money for sick children. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/04\/04\/twist-and-shout\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":137149,"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-137148","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\/137148","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=137148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137159,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137148\/revisions\/137159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}