{"id":86879,"date":"2020-04-28T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=86879"},"modified":"2020-04-28T09:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:14:21","slug":"smiles-and-sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/04\/28\/smiles-and-sandwiches\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiles and sandwiches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State University Athletic Department provided drive-up meals for 50 student-athletes on April 23. Students who braved the rainy weather received a sandwich, chips, applesauce and chocolate milk outside the Wright State Nutter Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile you can\u2019t really shake their hand or physically hug them, seeing them like this is what it\u2019s all about,\u201d said Bob Grant, director of athletics.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second time the Athletic Department distributed meals to student-athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several weeks ago the department distributed 80 meals to students<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good way to see everyone and not be in the same room,\u201d said Austin Schoonmaker, a senior golfer.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh Thyme Farmers Market in Beavercreek provided the meals for the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State University Athletic Department provided drive-up meals for 50 student-athletes. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/04\/28\/smiles-and-sandwiches\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":86899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2798,4839,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-athletics","category-coronavirus","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\/86879","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=86879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86887,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86879\/revisions\/86887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}