{"id":31123,"date":"2014-06-13T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=31123"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:42:19","slug":"actress-ruby-dee-had-connections-to-wright-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/06\/13\/actress-ruby-dee-had-connections-to-wright-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Ruby Dee had connections to Wright State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faculty members at Wright State University had the honor of working with noted actress and activist\u00a0Ruby Dee\u00a0on at least two occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Dee, who\u00a0died at age 91\u00a0in her home Wednesday night, is remembered as both \u201cvivacious\u201d and \u201cgracious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with actor Martin Sheen, Dee and her husband Ossie Davis recorded the narration for the school\u2019s theatrical production of \u201c1913: The Great Dayton Flood.\u201d The drama, originally produced in 1996, was re-staged in 2013 with the voices of the famous couple used once again.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local-obituaries\/actress-ruby-dee-had-connections-to-wright-state-u\/ngKTb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Faculty members at Wright State University had the honor of working with noted actress and activist\u00a0Ruby Dee\u00a0on at least two occasions. Dee, who\u00a0died at age 91\u00a0in her home Wednesday night, is remembered as both \u201cvivacious\u201d and \u201cgracious.\u201d Along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/06\/13\/actress-ruby-dee-had-connections-to-wright-state-university\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":18568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31123","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=31123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130545,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31123\/revisions\/130545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}