{"id":30688,"date":"2014-05-21T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=30688"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:46:51","slug":"vest-excited-humbled-to-land-pro-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/05\/21\/vest-excited-humbled-to-land-pro-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Vest excited, humbled to land pro contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The class that could have helped Matt Vest the most in his first job after graduating college is one he didn\u2019t take in four years at Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know any German, so I guess I\u2019ll have to learn some,\u201d Vest said after signing a professional basketball contract with the Gotha Rockets of the German Pro-A League.<\/p>\n<p>It will help that most of Vest\u2019s teammates speak English and that his head coach, Chris Ensminger, is from Cincinnati, but the biggest key will be that Vest is fluent \u2014 and fluid \u2014 in the language that matters most: basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/sports\/college\/vest-excited-humbled-to-land-pro-contract\/nf4R3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Daily News<\/a><\/em> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt The class that could have helped Matt Vest the most in his first job after graduating college is one he didn\u2019t take in four years at Wright State. \u201cI don\u2019t know any German, so I guess I\u2019ll have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/05\/21\/vest-excited-humbled-to-land-pro-contract\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30689,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688\/revisions\/30689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}