{"id":51596,"date":"2018-04-06T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=51596"},"modified":"2018-04-06T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:53:34","slug":"wdtn-2-news-blanket-making-marathon-at-wright-state-helps-local-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/06\/wdtn-2-news-blanket-making-marathon-at-wright-state-helps-local-children\/","title":{"rendered":"WDTN 2 News: Blanket making marathon at Wright State helps local children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/06\/wdtn-2-news-blanket-making-marathon-at-wright-state-helps-local-children\/15496-034\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51598\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-51598\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2018\/04\/15496-034-260x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>More than 200 students turned out to Wright State University&#8217;s Student Union for the Project Linus blanket making marathon on April 5. Project Linus makes blankets for area children who may be sick, traumatized or in need of comfort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They might be going through a hard time but the blankets just show them that the community really cares about them and wants to see the best for them,&#8221; Ryan Oats, a student at WSU, said.<\/p>\n<p>Oats&#8217; student organization, the National Residence Hall Honorary, spent the last year fundraising for the blanket tying marathon.The last six months were spent cutting fabric for Thursday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdtn.com\/news\/local-news\/blanket-making-marathon-helps-local-children\/1103377112\">Watch the report from 2 News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 students turned out to Wright State University&#8217;s Student Union for the Project Linus blanket making marathon on April 5. Project Linus makes blankets for area children who may be sick, traumatized or in need of comfort. &#8220;They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/06\/wdtn-2-news-blanket-making-marathon-at-wright-state-helps-local-children\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":51598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51596","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51601,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51596\/revisions\/51601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}