{"id":2258,"date":"2017-08-29T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:45:18","slug":"back-to-school-at-acu-welcome-from-the-pruett-gerontology-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2017\/08\/29\/back-to-school-at-acu-welcome-from-the-pruett-gerontology-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School at ACU! Welcome from the Pruett Gerontology Center!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to ACU! If you attended chapel yesterday, you were blessed with the energetic attendance, the music, the parade of flags, the happy faces, your administration and faculty, and the positive and affirming message from Dr. Michael J. Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College. <a href=\"http:\/\/acu.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76b9851ec52b6b0c087b702a3&amp;id=bcc2ca9863&amp;e=389ea20453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch it here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2017\/08\/DrMichaelSorrell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2259 size-large alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2017\/08\/DrMichaelSorrell-e1504036792604-368x490.jpg\" alt=\"DrMichaelSorrellPhotoByTeague\" width=\"368\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2017\/08\/DrMichaelSorrell-e1504036792604-368x490.jpg 368w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2017\/08\/DrMichaelSorrell-e1504036792604-1080x1440.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2017\/08\/DrMichaelSorrell-e1504036792604-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2017\/08\/DrMichaelSorrell-e1504036792604-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2017\/08\/DrMichaelSorrell-e1504036792604-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2017\/08\/DrMichaelSorrell-e1504036792604.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sorrell&#8217;s message of inclusivness included this uplifting advice regarding leadership that bears repeating here:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\":199\" class=\"hP\">Leading means that our Next is better than our Now<br \/>\n~ Dr. Michael J. Sorrell<\/h2>\n<p>Have an energetic and positive beginning to your school year!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>#PGCACU<\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to ACU! If you attended chapel yesterday, you were blessed with the energetic attendance, the music, the parade of flags, the happy faces, your administration and faculty, and [&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":[42240],"tags":[86851,86832,176990,161995,176991,161650,163237,161651],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","tag-acu-opening-chapel","tag-charlie-pruett","tag-dr-michael-j-sorrell","tag-older-adult-ministry-2","tag-paul-quinn-college","tag-pgc","tag-pruett-gerontology-center-pgcacu","tag-retiree-ministry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","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=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001402,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/1001402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}