{"id":2322,"date":"2018-07-23T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/?page_id=1234"},"modified":"2019-06-30T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T03:10:00","slug":"float-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/2018\/07\/23\/float-a-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"Float-A-Thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By: Blair Russell <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Western sorority <a href=\"https:\/\/orgs.missouriwestern.edu\/clubs-and-organizations\/alpha-sigma-alpha\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Alpha Sigma Alpha<\/a> hosted their annual Float-A-Thon Sept. 29th. The purpose behind Float-A-Thon is for the members of ASA to raise funds and awareness all day for their designated charity, Special Olympics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The girls of ASA took over the Eder fountain from 8am to 8pm. With the help of fraternity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tke.org\/\">Tau Kappa Epsilon<\/a> at the grill, money was raised by serving food and accepting donations for their cause. At the end of the day, ASA raised over $600. These funds went towards their Polar Plunge event held for Special Olympics every spring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/somo.org\/\">Special Olympics<\/a> is one of four philanthropies ASA gives to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Blair Russell Western sorority Alpha Sigma Alpha hosted their annual Float-A-Thon Sept. 29th. The purpose behind Float-A-Thon is for the members of ASA to raise funds and awareness all day for their designated charity, Special Olympics. The girls of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":3644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[171],"tags":[546,547,548,182,549,550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}