{"id":52,"date":"2020-10-13T17:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-11-13T14:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:18:17","slug":"john-robert-lewis-hall-lettering-now-on-building-named-in-honor-of-the-civil-rights-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/archive\/news\/john-robert-lewis-hall-lettering-now-on-building-named-in-honor-of-the-civil-rights-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"John Robert Lewis Hall lettering now on building named in honor of the civil rights icon."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The name of the \u201cBoy from Troy\u201d is now a major part of the campus of TROY. Crews removed the old letters from the former Bibb Graves Hall to add the lettering for John Robert Lewis Hall on October 1<sup>st<\/sup>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The building was renamed in honor of the Pike County native and civil rights icon by the Troy University Board of Trustees in September. One of congressman\u2019s official memorial services was held on the Troy campus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe definitely deserves it,\u201d said TROY student Sydney Elston.\u201dI hate that he\u2019s not here to see that it happened but it\u2019s super exciting and it brings a nice change to TROY and to help unify everybody as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To hear more reaction from TROY students watch Brady\u2019s full story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the \u201cBoy from Troy\u201d is now a major part of the campus of TROY. Crews removed the old letters from the former Bibb Graves Hall to add the lettering for John Robert Lewis Hall on October 1st.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The building was renamed in honor of the Pike County native and civil rights icon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/archive\/news\/john-robert-lewis-hall-lettering-now-on-building-named-in-honor-of-the-civil-rights-icon\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}