{"id":2296,"date":"2022-01-26T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2022-01-26T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:21:14","slug":"troy-university-students-help-the-community-during-the-mlk-day-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/01\/26\/troy-university-students-help-the-community-during-the-mlk-day-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University students help the community during the MLK Days of Service."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">TROY<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/center-student-success\/office-of-civic-engagement\/\">Office of Civic Engagement<\/a> held an event for students to take part in the community by vamping up Troy Elementary School&#8217;s playground with new mulch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are helping with some mulch here on their playgrounds,&#8221; says Office of Civic Engagement Coordinator Lauren Cochran. &#8220;Students are just diving in with some shovels and putting the mulch back in the playground area and so it&#8217;s also really fun because the kids are out here this afternoon and so they&#8217;re really excited about the lava going back into the playground.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With shovels and wheelbarrows the students got to work and lay mulch while getting to enjoy interacting with children as they played during recess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very centered around the community and service,&#8221; says Student Volunteer Nick Molk. &#8220;So obviously through the MLK days of service it just allows us to give back to the community. Like all of our other events and this is a huge part of our community is our school system so it&#8217;s just great to give back and especially with like the playgrounds because I mean I used to be there when I was little so it&#8217;s just nice to be able to help out and this to see the community flourish.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Talor&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY&#8216;s Office of Civic Engagement held an event for students to take part in the community by vamping up Troy Elementary School&#8217;s playground with new mulch. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are helping with some mulch here on their playgrounds,&#8221; says Office of Civic Engagement Coordinator Lauren Cochran. &#8220;Students are just diving in with some shovels and putting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/01\/26\/troy-university-students-help-the-community-during-the-mlk-day-of-service\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[813,600,762,812,811,484],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brooke-unoko","tag-civic-engagement","tag-lauren-cochran","tag-mlk-days-of-service","tag-nick-molk","tag-talor-waymon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","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=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}