{"id":40363,"date":"2013-10-03T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_faith-based_dormitoary_is_filled_at_troy_university_in_alabama\/"},"modified":"2013-10-03T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:00:25","slug":"a_faith-based_dormitoary_is_filled_at_troy_university_in_alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40363","title":{"rendered":"(BP) A Faith-Based Dormitory is filled at Troy University in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A state university has become the first in Alabama to offer a faith-based dorm to students who meet certain requirements, such as a 2.5 GPA and a letter of recommendation from a minister or other community leader.<\/p>\n<p>The dorm, which opened in August at Troy University, has brought both praise and criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over time, our students indicated in surveys that their interest in faith and spiritual issues is very high compared to students across the land,&#8221; said John W. Schmidt, Troy&#8217;s senior vice chancellor for advancement and external relations. In building the dorms, Schmidt said, the university was &#8220;meeting a need for student housing but also satisfying some of our student requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/BPnews.asp?ID=41178\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state university has become the first in Alabama to offer a faith-based dorm to students who meet certain requirements, such as a 2.5 GPA and a letter of recommendation from a minister or other community leader. The dorm, which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40363\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}