{"id":1301,"date":"2021-06-24T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2021-06-24T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:13:41","slug":"trojan-football-players-help-short-the-squirrel-build-reading-kits-for-childrens-hospital-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/06\/24\/trojan-football-players-help-short-the-squirrel-build-reading-kits-for-childrens-hospital-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojan Football players help Short the Squirrel build reading kits for Children&#8217;s Hospital patients."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> Trojan Football players took time away from their summer workouts to help Children&#8217;s Hospital patients on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players filled the lobby of <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\/sbdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROY&#8217;s Small Business Development Center<\/a> to pack <a href=\"https:\/\/shortthesquirrel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Short the Squirrel <\/a>reading kits to send to the hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each kit contained the latest Short the Squirrel book &#8220;Short Gets Sick.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/football\">Troy University football team<\/a> volunteering for this community service event for Short the Squirrel,&#8221; says Short the Squirrel Project Manager Sierra Champion. &#8220;They are assembling literacy kits for &#8216;Short Gets Sick&#8217; that will actually be going to Children&#8217;s Hospital this Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team helped put together over two thousand packets to go to Children&#8217;s Hospital. Trojan running back Kimani Vidal says he knows all of the hard work will help children who need it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;It&#8217;s something that&#8217;s great not just for children but children that are specifically in the hospital,&#8221; says Vidal. &#8220;They might need that boost of having that goody bag.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Xada&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy University Trojan Football players took time away from their summer workouts to help Children&#8217;s Hospital patients on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The players filled the lobby of TROY&#8217;s Small Business Development Center to pack Short the Squirrel reading kits to send to the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Each kit contained the latest Short the Squirrel book &#8220;Short Gets Sick.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/06\/24\/trojan-football-players-help-short-the-squirrel-build-reading-kits-for-childrens-hospital-patients\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[562,490,473,209,194],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-kimani-vidal","tag-short-the-squirrel","tag-sierra-champion","tag-troy-football","tag-xada-ingram"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}