{"id":40752,"date":"2016-04-18T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=40752"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:24:14","slug":"why-tom-hanks-visit-to-dayton-is-one-for-the-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/04\/18\/why-tom-hanks-visit-to-dayton-is-one-for-the-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tom Hanks\u2019 visit to Dayton is one for the history books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The large wall calendar that hangs in the Equipment Room at Wright State University\u2019s new Tom Hanks Center of Motion Pictures makes it obvious that Tuesday, April 19, is going to be a red letter day for the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTOM HANKS!\u201d it reads in large red capital letters surrounded by hand-drawn stars.<\/p>\n<p>W. Stuart McDowell, professor, chair and artistic director of the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, said Hanks has put Wright State on the map in a big kind of way and helped to ensure that the school has state-of-the-art facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydaytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local\/why-tom-hanks-visit-to-dayton-is-one-for-the-histo\/nq69y\/\">Dayton Daily News<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt The large wall calendar that hangs in the Equipment Room at Wright State University\u2019s new Tom Hanks Center of Motion Pictures makes it obvious that Tuesday, April 19, is going to be a red letter day for the school. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/04\/18\/why-tom-hanks-visit-to-dayton-is-one-for-the-history-books\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":40754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,747,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40752","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=40752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40753,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40752\/revisions\/40753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}