{"id":40060,"date":"2016-02-29T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=40060"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:17:51","slug":"wright-state-honors-sharon-rab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/29\/wright-state-honors-sharon-rab\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State honors Sharon Rab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeace has been an important theme to me since my childhood,\u201d says Sharon Rab, founder and co-chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. \u201cI grew up in Fairborn, a military town. I remember hearing military airplanes taking off, and riding my bicycle to the Air Force museum. I was particularly fascinated by a mural that was, at the time, right inside the door, depicting Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II flying into the decks of Allied ships. I remember thinking, I don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized, as I grew older and was able to reflect back on what it meant to grow up in Fairborn, that the people I know most concerned with peace are members of the military,\u201d says Rab, who grew up in a family with military experience and connections.<\/p>\n<p>These themes were part of her acceptance speech for an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, awarded by Wright State University at its fall commencement in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/entertainment\/books-literature\/wsu-honors-sharon-rab\/nqX7p\/\">Dayton Daily News<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt \u201cPeace has been an important theme to me since my childhood,\u201d says Sharon Rab, founder and co-chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. \u201cI grew up in Fairborn, a military town. I remember hearing military airplanes taking off, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/29\/wright-state-honors-sharon-rab\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":39377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2107,2104,2060,744,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commencement","category-teacher-education","category-graduate","category-education-human-services","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060","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=40060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40061,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060\/revisions\/40061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}