{"id":47611,"date":"2017-09-06T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=47611"},"modified":"2017-09-06T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:02:36","slug":"thousands-attend-fall-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/06\/thousands-attend-fall-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend Fall Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall Fest, the annual celebration that highlights Welcome Weeks at Wright State, brought students, staff and faculty together for a day of fun, food and free goodies.<\/p>\n<p>The event gave students a chance to learn more about student organizations, educational opportunities at Wright State and services offered by different campus departments.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsuab.com\/\">University Activities Board<\/a>, Fall Fest attracted about 5,000 people, more than 100 student organizations along with 40 vendors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/01\/09\/wright-state-university-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-throughout-2017\/wright-state-50th-600x400\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-43671\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/01\/Wright-State-50th-600x400-260x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>\u201cThis is a chance for students to get used to Wright State and feel welcome and at home,\u201d said Jordan Collins, University Activities Board president.<\/p>\n<p>Originally founded as a branch campus of The Ohio State University and Miami University, Wright State became an independent institution in 1967. It celebrates its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/50th\">50th anniversary<\/a> in 2017, culminating with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/event\/homecoming\">special Homecoming celebration<\/a> Sept. 29 through Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall Fest at Wright State brought students, staff and faculty together for a day of fun, food and free goodies. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/06\/thousands-attend-fall-fest\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":47612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","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\/47611","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=47611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47615,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47611\/revisions\/47615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}