{"id":43632,"date":"2017-02-13T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=43632"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:03:38","slug":"pulling-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/02\/13\/pulling-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you see Jesus Quiroz walking the halls around Wright State you\u2019ll notice that his hands are moving faster that his feet. \u201cI walk really slow when I\u2019m yo-yoing and my friends are like \u2018dude come on,\u2019\u201d said Quiroz, a junior <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering-computer-science.wright.edu\/computer-science-and-engineering\">majoring in computer science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What he lacks in foot speed he makes up with his hands. Quiroz has mastered 20 yo-yo tricks since he began the hobby only a few years ago. \u201cYou have to learn how to do a trapeze but before you learn a trapeze you need to learn a break-away throw,\u201c he said. \u201cOnce you have all of these tricks you can build a sequence or a combo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quiroz\u2019s tricks may look fun and complicated to students passing by but for Quiroz it\u2019s a way to deal with the stresses of schoolwork. \u201cI have a way to relax after all of the stress of campus and everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Quiroz says he doesn&#8217;t know many other yo-yo enthusiasts at Wright State and encourages experienced yo-yoers or those interested in learning how to yo-yo to stop him on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you see Jesus Quiroz walking the halls around Wright State you\u2019ll notice that his hands are moving faster that his feet. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/02\/13\/pulling-strings\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":43745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,4267,743,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-computer-science-and-engineering","category-engineering-computer-science","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632","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=43632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43636,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions\/43636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}