{"id":3030,"date":"2011-03-14T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2011-03-14T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T13:00:17","slug":"wright-state-grad-calmed-students-during-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/03\/14\/wright-state-grad-calmed-students-during-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State grad calmed students during quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>A Wright State University graduate who has been teaching junior high school    students in Japan tried to reassure her pupils when they experienced    earthquakes and aftershocks, she told the Dayton Daily News in an email    Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>When the quake struck, \u201cI went over to the students to make sure they were    all calm and chatted with them to try my best to put a smile on their face,\u201d    said Lauren Koors, 26. She has been living and teaching in Saku City in    Nagano Prefecture since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI even jumped up and down a few times in a naive, \u2018oh, isn\u2019t this fun?\u2019 kind    of manner. The student curled up in a ball under the sink didn\u2019t seem    amused. After about a minute and a half of shaking, some of the students\u2019    faces turned ghostly white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wright State grad calmed students during quake\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/dayton-news\/wright-state-grad-calmed-students-during-quake-1106509.html\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((excerpt)) A Wright State University graduate who has been teaching junior high school students in Japan tried to reassure her pupils when they experienced earthquakes and aftershocks, she told the Dayton Daily News in an email Sunday. When the quake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/03\/14\/wright-state-grad-calmed-students-during-quake\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}