{"id":976,"date":"2010-04-02T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/newsline\/?p=976"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:09:11","slug":"going-forth-to-serve-over-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2010\/04\/02\/going-forth-to-serve-over-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Forth to Serve over Spring Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-977\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-977\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2010\/04\/springbreak.jpg\" alt=\"KSC junior Jessica Spellman plays with kids at a community outreach event at a low-income apartment complex in Orlando, Fla.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KSC junior Jessica Spellman plays with kids at a community outreach event at a low-income apartment complex in Orlando, Fla.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For many college students, Spring Break is a time of excess and indulgence. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/newsevents\/default.cfm?Type=NewsDetail&amp;News_ID=2296\">as KSC senior Hannah Dale reported<\/a>, a couple of week-long breaks in February and March were times for some students to indulge in their excess social consciousness. They joined such programs as Alternative Spring Break and Here&#8217;s Life Inner City and fanned out across the country to build houses, set up computer labs for a women&#8217;s half-way house, improve the environment, tutor at-risk youth, and dig ditches. The students organized and led these trips, so they not only helped those in need, they also helped themselves learn some valuable lessons, including leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any of these students? Want to give them a digital high five? Use the &#8220;comments&#8221; link below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/newsevents\/default.cfm?Type=NewsDetail&amp;News_ID=2296\">More information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many college students, Spring Break is a time of excess and indulgence. But as KSC senior Hannah Dale reported, a couple of week-long breaks in February and March were times for some students to indulge in their excess social consciousness. They joined such programs as Alternative Spring Break and Here&#8217;s Life Inner City and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2010\/04\/02\/going-forth-to-serve-over-spring-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going Forth to Serve over Spring Break<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}