{"id":1729,"date":"2021-09-20T21:30:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2021-09-20T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T21:30:38","slug":"troy-universitys-english-department-celebrates-hispanic-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/09\/20\/troy-universitys-english-department-celebrates-hispanic-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University&#8217;s English department celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-communication-fine-arts\/departments\/english\/\">English department<\/a> celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month with the 71st English Forum where students shake off their nerves and present their choice of literature, this month focusing on Hispanic authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This was a part of a series of events that we have we&#8217;ve been doing this since I think 2008 actually where we have just a group of people students faculty come together and talk about something that is interesting to us,&#8221; says English Professor Ben Robertson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This month participants focused on pieces of writing by Hispanic authors and recite popular poems excerpts and original pieces of work in Spanish, English or both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a minor in Spanish, major in English so it was really neat today to be able to cross over both of those parts of my degree,&#8221; says participant Cara Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Talor&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy University&#8216;s English department celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month with the 71st English Forum where students shake off their nerves and present their choice of literature, this month focusing on Hispanic authors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a part of a series of events that we have we&#8217;ve been doing this since I think 2008 actually where we have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/09\/20\/troy-universitys-english-department-celebrates-hispanic-heritage-month\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[681,682,383,484],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ben-robertson","tag-cara-brown","tag-english-deparment","tag-talor-waymon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","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=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}