{"id":1624,"date":"2009-03-11T07:05:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:30:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:30:52","slug":"hoop-dreams-reading-mar-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1624","title":{"rendered":"Hoop Dreams reading Mar 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/hoopdreams.jpg\" alt=\"Hope Dreams on Wheels cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/><strong>UWW Sociology Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/directory\/berger_ronald.html\">Ron Berger<\/a> will discuss and read passages from his book, &#8220;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=EhtMG4NwanMC&amp;printsec=frontcover\">Hoop dreams on wheels: disability and the competitive wheelchair athlete<\/a><strong>&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/marketingandmedia\/news_releases\/2009_03_hoop_dreams.html\">Fri., March 13th, at 3:30 pm, in Williams Center room 185<\/a>. <\/strong> The book chronicles the lives of 13 current and former UWW students with disabilities who play basketball. Berger will sign copies of his book at the event. The Library has a copy of this book (3rd-floor Main Collection, GV886.5 .B47 2009), and copies are also for sale at the University Bookstore. This event is sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/friends\/index.html\">Friends of the Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time National Champion UW-Whitewater is hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/marketingandmedia\/news_releases\/2009_03_wheelchair_basketball_.html\">2009 National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament March 12-14<\/a>, with the national championship game at 2 pm on Sat., March 14th (Williams Center).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWW Sociology Professor Ron Berger will discuss and read passages from his book, &#8220;Hoop dreams on wheels: disability and the competitive wheelchair athlete&#8221; on Fri., March 13th, at 3:30 pm, in Williams Center room 185. The book chronicles the lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[324,1757,178,354,1423,500],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-campus-connection","tag-authors","tag-berger","tag-books","tag-friends-of-the-library","tag-readings","tag-wheelchair-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}