{"id":73459,"date":"2019-09-05T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=73459"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:10:20","slug":"backpack-buddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/05\/backpack-buddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Backpack buddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 14, 16 Wright State students, including 12 freshmen, traveled south to Hampton, Tennessee, for a week to take part in the Freshmen Outdoor Orientation Trip (FOOT).<\/p>\n<p>FOOT is a unique wilderness experience that is led by trained upperclassmen along the Appalachian Trail.<\/p>\n<p>The trip gives incoming students the opportunity to meet a small group of new classmates and establish relationships with older student leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis trip helped me make new friends,\u201d said Maureen Roddy, a freshman majoring in medical laboratory science.<\/p>\n<p>Participants hiked Roan Mountain, camped under the stars, cooked outdoors, played games, swam in waterfalls and maintained and repaired hiking trails in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 15-year for the FOOT trip, which is organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/student-affairs\/health-and-wellness\/campus-recreation\/outdoor-resource-center\">Wright State\u2019s Outdoor Resource Center.<\/a> The trip is designed for students with all levels of hiking experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State students, including 12 freshmen, traveled south to Hampton, Tennessee, for a week to take part in the Freshmen Outdoor Orientation Trip (FOOT). <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/05\/backpack-buddies\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":73463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73459","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=73459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73467,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73459\/revisions\/73467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}