{"id":49446,"date":"2017-12-08T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=49446"},"modified":"2017-12-08T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T19:19:33","slug":"watch-the-joy-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/12\/08\/watch-the-joy-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The joy of giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State community collected hundreds of toys and other items for children in Greene County through the university\u2019s annual Adopt a Family gift drive.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State has hosted annual toy drives for more than 20 years. This is the fourth year We Serve U has organized the drive. This year, donations helped 25 families and 130 individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to work at Wright State because there are so many generous individuals,\u201d said Joanie Hendricks, data analyst for Institutional Research at Wright State and co-chair of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/we-serve-u\">We Serve U<\/a>. \u201cIt just warms your heart to know that you\u2019re going to be able to help that many people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene County Children Services provided Wright State with a list of families and their Christmas wish lists. Individuals and groups chose to \u201cadopt\u201d a family and donate a few practical and enjoyable gifts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing the amount of love that Wright State University shows the community members every year,\u201d said Tasha Ertell of Greene County.<\/p>\n<p>The donations will be delivered to the families\u2019 homes before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: The Wright State community collected hundreds of toys for children in Greene County. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/12\/08\/watch-the-joy-of-giving\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":49448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2025,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/49446","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=49446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49450,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49446\/revisions\/49450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}