{"id":36253,"date":"2015-04-07T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T16:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=36253"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:16:07","slug":"international-students-share-poetry-with-campus-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/04\/07\/international-students-share-poetry-with-campus-community\/","title":{"rendered":"International students share poetry with campus community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36282\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/04\/15549-031-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36282\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36282\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/04\/15549-031-1-508x338.jpg\" alt=\"The poetry, which was read April 3 in the atrium of Millett Hall, drew a crowd of about 75.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poetry, which was read April 3 in the atrium of Millett Hall, drew a crowd of about 75.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University\u2019s international students shared their culture by reading poems in their native languages to mark International Poetry Day.<\/p>\n<p>Students from Portugal, Syria, Niger, Iraq, China, Brazil, Libya and Mauritania read poems from their native lands.<\/p>\n<p>A student from the African nation of Mauritania read a poem which reminded that everyone are brothers and sisters no matter where they come from. A child who uses a pencil to try to draw everything \u2013 including the morning, freedom and the future \u2013 was the subject of a poem read by a Chinese student.<\/p>\n<p>A student from Syria made an impassioned plea to end the fighting in his native country with an original poem. And songs sung by a student from his native India were a crowd favorite.<\/p>\n<p>The poetry, which was read April 3 in the atrium of Millett Hall, drew a crowd of about 75.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University\u2019s international students shared their culture by reading poems in their native languages to mark International Poetry Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/04\/07\/international-students-share-poetry-with-campus-community\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":36282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,2037,725,2046,747,715,4855,719,2113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-arts-scene","category-home-news-sidebar","category-international-students","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies","category-special-categories","category-university-center-for-international-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36283,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253\/revisions\/36283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}