{"id":9637,"date":"2011-12-02T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=9637"},"modified":"2011-12-13T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:25:37","slug":"raiders-turn-out-for-heroes-heritage-and-action-on-the-hardwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/02\/raiders-turn-out-for-heroes-heritage-and-action-on-the-hardwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders turn out for heroes, heritage and action on the hardwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of he crowd may have turned out for the basketball action on the hardwood, but groups of Wright State University staff and students knew Thursday night&#8217;s game at the Wright State Nutter Center was about more than just the game.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9637 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/02\/raiders-turn-out-for-heroes-heritage-and-action-on-the-hardwood\/bball-cadets\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/12\/Bball-cadets-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Photo of 12 students taking the oath to join the Air Force at halftime of the Wright State vs. Cleveland State basketball game.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9633\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9633'>\n\t\t\t\tTwelve young men and women began their military careers when they took a public oath to defend the United States of America as members of the U.S. Air Force.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/02\/raiders-turn-out-for-heroes-heritage-and-action-on-the-hardwood\/bball-latino-students\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/12\/Bball-Latino-students-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Photo of Miami Valley Latino students and Wright State Latino students at the Wright State vs. Cleveland State basketball game.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9634\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9634'>\n\t\t\t\tLatino students from across the Miami Valley spent an evening with some Wright State Latino students and Rowdy Raider too.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/02\/raiders-turn-out-for-heroes-heritage-and-action-on-the-hardwood\/bball-marines\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/12\/Bball-Marines-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Photo of Marines Zack Pigg, Colt McGinnis and Ethan Kaiser and Rowdy Raider.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9635\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9635'>\n\t\t\t\tHaving recently returned from tours in Afghanistan, Marines Zack Pigg, Colt McGinnis and Ethan Kaiser helped celebrate &#8220;Heroes Night&#8221; when Wright State played host to Cleveland State.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/02\/raiders-turn-out-for-heroes-heritage-and-action-on-the-hardwood\/bball-we-serve-u\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/12\/Bball-We-Serve-U-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Photo of 24 members of Wright State&#039;s We Serve U group, staff who engage in significant community service opportunities.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9636\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9636'>\n\t\t\t\tTwo dozen members of We Serve U, the Wright State university organization of staff members engaged in community service, collected items for the local Blue Star Mothers chapter to send to deployed service men and women.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night&#8217;s game at the Wright State Nutter Center was about more than just basketball. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/02\/raiders-turn-out-for-heroes-heritage-and-action-on-the-hardwood\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,727,715,717,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-photos","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9637"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9832,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions\/9832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}