{"id":55389,"date":"2018-12-14T14:23:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=55389"},"modified":"2018-12-14T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:23:29","slug":"giving-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/12\/14\/giving-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving spirit"},"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 fifth year We Serve U has organized the drive. This year, donations helped 24 families and 94 individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe generosity of our students, staff and faculty is really heartwarming,\u201d said Joanie Hendricks, data analyst in the Office of Institutional Research and Analytics at Wright State and co-chair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/we-serve-u\">We Serve U<\/a>.<\/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 was a little overwhelming to see how many gifts there were,\u201d said Monica Schiffler of Greene County Children Services.<\/p>\n<p>The donations will be delivered to the families\u2019 homes before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/12\/14\/giving-spirit\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":55390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2025,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55389","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\/55389","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=55389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55442,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55389\/revisions\/55442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}