{"id":54299,"date":"2018-10-05T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=54299"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:02:13","slug":"wright-brothers-day-soars-on-historic-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/10\/05\/wright-brothers-day-soars-on-historic-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright Brothers Day soars on historic date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright Brothers Day at Wright State celebrated the 113th anniversary of Wilbur Wright\u2019s 39-minute flight on Huffman Prairie on Oct. 5, 1905. The flight demonstrated that the Wright brothers had advanced their design to the point of a practical airplane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of an defining moment for what they\u2019ve been doing with their airplane innovation,\u201d said Samantha Andrus, a senior marketing major and president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amawsu.com\/\">Wright State University\u2019s American Marketing Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured displays highlighting innovative projects from Wright State researchers and local organizations.<\/p>\n<p>This was the eighth year for the event. It was held in the Student Union Atrium and was organized by the American Marketing Association, a student organization in the <a href=\"https:\/\/business.wright.edu\/\">Raj Soin College of Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright Brothers Day at Wright State celebrated the 113th anniversary of Wilbur Wright\u2019s 39-minute flight on Huffman Prairie on Oct. 5, 1905.  <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/10\/05\/wright-brothers-day-soars-on-historic-date\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":54300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,748,725,727,715,4293,4908,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-business","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-supply-chain-management-marketing-and-management","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54299","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=54299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54301,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54299\/revisions\/54301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}