{"id":1907,"date":"2016-04-07T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2016-04-11T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:03:36","slug":"pgc-gives-free-hugs-for-acu-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2016\/04\/07\/pgc-gives-free-hugs-for-acu-students\/","title":{"rendered":"PGC Gives Free Hugs for ACU Students!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Raleway',sans-serif\">During Careers and Awareness of Aging week this week, one of our most popular events is the &#8220;Free Hugs.&#8221; This is one hour where several of our sweetest adults greet our ACU students as they enter the Campus Center, offer a hug and encouragement. Yesterday members of the Gerontological Honor Society, Sigma Phi Omega invited friends from University Place to be the Chief Huggers at their &#8220;Free Hugs!&#8221; event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Raleway',sans-serif\">Special thanks to &#8220;Chief Huggers&#8221; Don &amp; Pauletta McConathy, Jeannie Taylor, Leola Ouellette, Sylvia Paulk, Jean Warren, Joy Nunnally, and Shelly Drennan, Sales &amp; Marketing Director at University Place. Also, thank you to Sigma Phi Omega members, Ashley Bryan, Natalie Hudson, and Addie Rich!\u00a0 #CIAW<br \/>\n(To see our fun movie, please click on the picture)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/animoto.com\/play\/y7ENTyeDV11zslg0f23Xgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1915\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1915\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/04\/FreeHugs2016-490x341.jpg\" alt=\"Free Hugs 2016\" width=\"490\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/04\/FreeHugs2016-490x341.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/04\/FreeHugs2016-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/04\/FreeHugs2016-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/04\/FreeHugs2016.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/tag\/free-hugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Free Hugs Posts, click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Careers and Awareness of Aging week this week, one of our most popular events is the &#8220;Free Hugs.&#8221; This is one hour where several of our sweetest adults greet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86857],"tags":[162009,161655,125078,100156,106405,86832,106411,125083,161995,161650,86823,161651,161652,162008,162007],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gero-student-focus","tag-ciaw","tag-pgcacu","tag-addie-rich","tag-ashley-bryan","tag-careers-in-aging-week","tag-charlie-pruett","tag-free-hugs","tag-natalie-hudson","tag-older-adult-ministry-2","tag-pgc","tag-pruett-gerontology-center","tag-retiree-ministry","tag-senior-adult-ministry","tag-shelly-drennan","tag-university-place"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}