{"id":67358,"date":"2019-04-29T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=67358"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:10:45","slug":"ddn-wright-brothers-family-member-to-get-honorary-degree-from-wright-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/29\/ddn-wright-brothers-family-member-to-get-honorary-degree-from-wright-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Wright brothers family member to get honorary degree from Wright State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67038\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/24\/amanda-wright-lane-to-receive-honorary-degree-from-wright-state-at-spring-commencement\/50049-fran-keeley-honorary-degree-recipient-4-11-19-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67038\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67038\" class=\"size-large wp-image-67038\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/04\/Amanda-Wright-Lane-50049_032-508x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Wright Lane is the fourth member of the Wright family to receive an honorary degree from Wright State. (Photo by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University will award an honorary degree to a relative of the Wright Brothers during the school\u2019s commencement ceremony next month.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Wright Lane, great grandniece of Wilbur and Orville Wright, will receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the university.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State\u2019s graduation ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. May 4 at the Nutter Center. The spring class of 2019 includes 2,082 graduates, according to the school.<\/p>\n<p>Wright Lane is the fourth member of the Wright family to receive an honorary degree from Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI consider it a high, high honor,\u201d she said. \u201cI was so proud the day my dad received his degree, his passion for this university was so evident. And I believe I caught that passion too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/local\/wright-brothers-family-member-get-honorary-degree-from-wsu\/AtxSZmxzK3T8m80IoawWsL\/\">Read the article from the Dayton Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University will award an honorary degree to a relative of the Wright Brothers during the school\u2019s commencement ceremony next month. Amanda Wright Lane, great grandniece of Wilbur and Orville Wright, will receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/29\/ddn-wright-brothers-family-member-to-get-honorary-degree-from-wright-state\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":67034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67358","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\/67358","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=67358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145631,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67358\/revisions\/145631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}