{"id":341,"date":"2020-11-23T21:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=341"},"modified":"2020-11-23T21:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:29:43","slug":"troy-university-students-learn-traditional-chinese-meditation-technique-as-a-part-of-international-education-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/archive\/news\/troy-university-students-learn-traditional-chinese-meditation-technique-as-a-part-of-international-education-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University Students learn traditional Chinese meditation technique as a part of International Education Week."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troy University students practiced the traditional meditation technique of qigong as part of the week-long International Education Week celebration on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The qigong meditation class was one of many international theme physical activity events scheduled each night in Janice Hawkins Park Amphitheater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With exams right around the corner, organizers felt that the meditation technique might help students relax before they take their finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I am certain tonight that for all of the students this is the first time for them to try qigong,&#8221; said International Student Advisor Kathleen Freed.  &#8220;With exams coming up, I think this is a great way to get some exercise, to do something that&#8217;s meditative and to learn about a new culture.&#8221;   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full story watch Seth&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy University students practiced the traditional meditation technique of qigong as part of the week-long International Education Week celebration on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The qigong meditation class was one of many international theme physical activity events scheduled each night in Janice Hawkins Park Amphitheater. <\/p>\n<p>With exams right around the corner, organizers felt that the meditation technique&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/archive\/news\/troy-university-students-learn-traditional-chinese-meditation-technique-as-a-part-of-international-education-week\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[116,203,219,218,220],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-international-arts-center","tag-janice-hawkins-park-amphitheater","tag-kathleen-freed","tag-qigong","tag-seth-feiner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}