{"id":2949,"date":"2022-05-10T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:40:14","slug":"troy-university-students-relieve-pre-exam-stress-with-the-help-of-some-furry-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/05\/10\/troy-university-students-relieve-pre-exam-stress-with-the-help-of-some-furry-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University students relieve pre-exam stress with the help of some furry friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To help <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University <\/a>students relieve a little pre-final exam stress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/student-resources\/outreach-intervention\/trojan-outreach.html\">Trojan Outreach<\/a> brought some furry friends to campus to show students that &#8220;Stress is Ruff.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Troy&#8217;s Animal Rescue Project brought animals from their shelter for students to spend time with and have a little downtime for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Students are under a lot of pressure taking their tests,&#8221; says TARP President Tiffany Howington.  &#8220;Just giving them an outlet to kind of come and enjoy for just a little while will help them tremendously with test taking and with studying and just help them destress in general.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Animals are known for providing therapy for people dealing with a variety of conditions including stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finals can be a time that potentially provokes mental exhaustion and with the semester coming to a close students were able to stop by in between classes to clear their mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Honestly this means a lot,&#8221; says TROY Student Cameron Blackwell. &#8220;The semester has been very stressful and with finals coming up everybody&#8217;s a little stressed. We want to get all studying in but it feels nice to be able to take a break and see such cute little babies out here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Talor&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help Troy University students relieve a little pre-final exam stress Trojan Outreach brought some furry friends to campus to show students that &#8220;Stress is Ruff.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Troy&#8217;s Animal Rescue Project brought animals from their shelter for students to spend time with and have a little downtime for themselves. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Students are under a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/05\/10\/troy-university-students-relieve-pre-exam-stress-with-the-help-of-some-furry-friends\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[946,484,945,312,944],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cameron-blackwell","tag-talor-waymon","tag-tiffany-howington","tag-trojan-outreach","tag-troy-animal-rescue-project"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","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=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}