{"id":39716,"date":"2016-01-28T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=39716"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:27:11","slug":"wright-state-actress-is-breaking-new-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/01\/28\/wright-state-actress-is-breaking-new-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State actress is breaking new ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39718\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/01\/28\/wright-state-actress-is-breaking-new-ground\/streetcar-16646_244\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39718\" class=\"size-large wp-image-39718\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2016\/01\/streetcar-16646_244-508x412.jpg\" alt=\"Nerissa Johnson, front left, and Alejandria Solis play the Flower Girl in \u201cA Streetcar Named Desire.\u201d (Photo by Erin Pence)\" width=\"460\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nerissa Johnson, front left, and Alejandria Solis play the Flower Girl in \u201cA Streetcar Named Desire.\u201d (Photo by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University student Nerissa Johnson\u00a0is breaking barriers before an audience, and getting rave reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who has Cerebral Palsy, is sharing a role as a flower vendor in Wright State Theatre&#8217;s production of &#8220;A Streetcar Named Desire.&#8221;\u00a0This week, she\u2019ll become the first Wright State student with a disability to take the stage in a performance.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the report from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jSgfLIUbmc8\">WDTN 2 News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University student Nerissa Johnson\u00a0is breaking barriers before an audience, and getting rave reviews. Johnson, who has Cerebral Palsy, is sharing a role as a flower vendor in Wright State Theatre&#8217;s production of &#8220;A Streetcar Named Desire.&#8221;\u00a0This week, she\u2019ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/01\/28\/wright-state-actress-is-breaking-new-ground\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":39717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39716","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=39716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39729,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39716\/revisions\/39729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}