{"id":5645,"date":"2024-04-01T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:14:57","slug":"sga-hosts-faculty-and-staff-egg-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/04\/01\/sga-hosts-faculty-and-staff-egg-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"SGA hosts Faculty and Staff Egg Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 The Easter Bunny took a break from its usual duties this time of year to pay a visit to Troy University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/groups-organizations\/student-government-association\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Student Government Association<\/a> (SGA) invited Troy University faculty and staff&#8217;s children to an Easter Egg Hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a day where faculty can come out here with their children, and have an Easter egg hunt during you know the week of Easter,\u201d said Burnard Thomas, an event organizer with the SGA. \u201cIt&#8217;s an event for them to come out and have fun, and have a good time finding some Easter eggs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/03\/27\/holi-festival-brings-color-spring-to-troys-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OTHER NEWS: Holi festival brings color, Spring to TROY\u2019s campus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The children of faculty and staff scoured Janice Hawkins Park. It only took about 10 minutes for all the eggs to be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the egg hunt did not last long, there were other events for families to enjoy, such as taking pictures with the Easter Bunny, and face painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event allows for faculty and their families to enjoy being together while having some fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy family [is] really excited to come to this event we\u2019ve done it for the past two years\u201d said Preston Pritchett, a professor with the Sorrell College Of Business. \u201cWe have a 16-month-old little boy and he was very excited to get to go hunting for the eggs. It\u2019s a really great opportunity to come on campus and it\u2019s a lot of fun to be around other colleagues and families and friends, that we have and celebrate this holiday, and also have some fun for the children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The egg hunt was not only for faculty with children. Students who have children were also encouraged to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 The Easter Bunny took a break from its usual duties this time of year to pay a visit to Troy University.<\/p>\n<p>The Student Government Association (SGA) invited Troy University faculty and staff&#8217;s children to an Easter Egg Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a day where faculty can come out here with their children, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/04\/01\/sga-hosts-faculty-and-staff-egg-hunt\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[50,57],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-sga","tag-student-government-association"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}