{"id":82,"date":"2011-01-31T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/?p=82"},"modified":"2011-01-31T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T19:59:57","slug":"dance-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/2011\/01\/31\/dance-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday and Friday were pretty much run of the mill days like Monday-Wednesday, so I wanted to jump ahead to Saturday.\u00a0 Saturday was an incredible day.\u00a0 Butler hosted its Dance Marathon event for Riley\u2019s Children Hospital.\u00a0 The event was a 12-hour long dance\/stand-a-thon.\u00a0 We did not have to dance for 12 hours, but we were not allowed to sit down.\u00a0 It sounds like a daunting task, but it was such a powerful notion to be standing for the children that cannot, enduring the sore feet and cramped legs that came along with it.\u00a0 Though I had experienced it before, I truly got a feel for how much Butler cares about its community and how volunteer oriented we truly are here.\u00a0 Throughout the day we learned segments of a 12-minute long dance that our Morale Team made, and then we put it together at the end.\u00a0 In between learning the dance, we listened to numerous Riley families and children who had been touched by Riley.\u00a0 This aspect of the day was a very motivating experience.\u00a0 If we were not listening to a speaker or learning the dance we were either eating, dancing on our own, or playing on the various inflatables.\u00a0 The day was long, but it was very rewarding&#8230;and together we raised over $102,000 for Riley!!<\/p>\n<p>By David Korb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday and Friday were pretty much run of the mill days like Monday-Wednesday, so I wanted to jump ahead to Saturday.\u00a0 Saturday was an incredible day.\u00a0 Butler hosted its Dance Marathon event for Riley\u2019s Children Hospital.\u00a0 The event was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/2011\/01\/31\/dance-marathon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/busf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}