{"id":49864,"date":"2018-01-12T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=49864"},"modified":"2018-01-12T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:18:35","slug":"watch-motor-city-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/12\/watch-motor-city-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Motor City service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always looking for a chance to volunteer, the Wright State University men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams participated in community outreach events in metro Detroit last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Wright State women\u2019s team played basketball with children at the Boys &amp; Girls Club of SE on Jan. 5. The Raiders played at Oakland the day before and before traveling to Detroit Mercy on Jan. 6 they volunteered at the Boys &amp; Girls Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really fun to see the kids interact with us and they were excited to see us,\u201d said Symone Simmons, a junior guard on the women\u2019s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 6 the Wright State men\u2019s team visited the Children\u2019s Hospital of Michigan and create activity packets for pediatric patients to use during their time in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing something like that in Detroit where we\u2019re not usually helping out or ever there except one time a year is really something special,\u201d said Grant Benzinger, a senior guard on the men\u2019s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>Both men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams won their basketball games during their weekend visits to the Motor City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Wright State men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams participated in community outreach events in metro Detroit last weekend. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/12\/watch-motor-city-service\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":49866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2025,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49864","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\/49864","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=49864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49872,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49864\/revisions\/49872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}