{"id":41049,"date":"2016-05-03T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=41049"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:58:51","slug":"tom-hanks-will-have-a-long-lasting-impact-on-motion-picture-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/03\/tom-hanks-will-have-a-long-lasting-impact-on-motion-picture-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks will have a long-lasting impact on Motion Pictures program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed actor, producer and director Tom Hanks visited Wright State University to dedicate the <a href=\"http:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/theatre-dance-and-motion-pictures\/degrees-and-programs\/motion-pictures#overview\">Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures<\/a>, saying he hopes the center inspires students to do the hard work necessary to launch film careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very competitive program,\u201d said Michaela Scholl, a senior motion pictures major. \u201cI think Tom Hanks\u2019 name will bring more students to the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2,000 students, faculty, staff and others turned out April 19 to see Hanks and witness the ribbon-cutting for the newly renovated center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that this building spurs the students that come here \u2014 the freshmen that are here now and the freshmen that will be here in the next 20 years \u2014 I hope that it spurs them to working harder than they ever have in their lives,\u201d said Hanks. \u201cBecause if you work the hardest you ever will in your life at the beginning of your career, the rest takes care of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks visited Wright State to dedicate the Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures, saying he hopes the center inspires students to do the hard work necessary to launch film careers.  <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/03\/tom-hanks-will-have-a-long-lasting-impact-on-motion-picture-program\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":41066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2037,2043,4859,2040,725,727,747,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-arts-scene","category-facilities-planning","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-giving","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41049","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41056,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41049\/revisions\/41056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}