{"id":50105,"date":"2018-01-30T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=50105"},"modified":"2018-02-06T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:55:59","slug":"perfect-fit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/30\/perfect-fit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When players on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/index.aspx?path=mbball\">Wright State men\u2019s basketball<\/a> team laced up their sneakers to play the visiting Titans from Detroit on Jan. 26, their coach Scott Nagy arrived shoeless.<\/p>\n<p>By coaching a game barefoot, Nagy tries to raise awareness for Samaritan\u2019s Feet, a global humanitarian organization that provides shoes for children around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 10th\u00a0year that Nagy coached a game barefoot. \u201cI\u2019m so thankful for Samaritan\u2019s Feet. They see it that we\u2019re helping them out. The way I look at it they\u2019re helping us out by providing opportunities for our players to do stuff like this,\u201d said Nagy.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 27, basketball players and coaching staff\u00a0volunteered at the Life Enrichment Center in East Dayton to wash people\u2019s feet and pass out 200 new athletic sneakers to those in need.<\/p>\n<p>The intimate encounter allows the players on the team to exchange stories and experiences with the recipients. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely life-changing,\u201d said Jaylon Hall, a freshman basketball player.<\/p>\n<p>Samaritan\u2019s Feet was founded in 2003 and has served over 6.7 million people around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball players and coaches volunteered at the Life Enrichment Center to wash people\u2019s feet and pass out 200 new athletic sneakers to those in need. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/30\/perfect-fit-2\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":50106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2025,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/50105","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=50105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50254,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50105\/revisions\/50254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}