{"id":41232,"date":"2016-05-18T13:07:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=41232"},"modified":"2016-05-18T16:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T20:22:28","slug":"wright-states-baseball-team-hopes-to-strikeout-huntingtons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/18\/wright-states-baseball-team-hopes-to-strikeout-huntingtons-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State\u2019s baseball team hopes to strike out Huntington\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, an estimated 30,000 people are battling Huntington\u2019s Disease (HD) and one of those people fighting is Lee Smith. Smith was diagnosed with HD in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a genetic neurological disorder. It attacks the cells in the brain so it affects the individual both mentally and physically,\u201d said Mike Smith, Lee\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n<p>The Smiths\u2019 son, Joe Smith, former Wright State baseball player and current Anaheim Angels pitcher, along with his wife, created <a href=\"http:\/\/helpcurehd.com\/\">helpcurehd.com<\/a> after his mom\u2019s diagnosis. The website gives information about HD and also a link to help researchers at the Cleveland Clinic find a cure.<\/p>\n<p>The Smiths\u2019 goal is to raise $2 million to support a study of deep-brain stimulation that could be useful for people battling HD.<\/p>\n<p>On May 13, the Wright State baseball team raised $5,600 for the study from ticket sales and blue hats sold at a doubleheader at Nischwitz Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, an estimated 30,000 people are battling Huntington\u2019s Disease (HD) and one of those people fighting is Lee Smith. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/18\/wright-states-baseball-team-hopes-to-strikeout-huntingtons-disease\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":41233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,729,2025,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-around-campus","category-community-service","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232","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=41232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41238,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41232\/revisions\/41238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}