{"id":3533,"date":"2018-02-05T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2018-02-05T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:00:48","slug":"basketball-battles-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2018\/02\/05\/basketball-battles-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball battles breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>By: Jolie Winemiller, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon Valley College\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team not only took the court to defeat Widener University, but they also took on the fight against breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>During the annual Pink Game on Wednesday, Jan. 31., the team raised money for the American Cancer Society of Lebanon and Genetics Program at Penn State Health Cancer Institute when they sold t-shirts and hosted a silent auction of the player\u2019s jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe importance of the game is to raise money for those who can\u2019t afford care,\u201d Anne Lehr, team captain and point guard, said. \u201cI love that the Pink Game allows us to help others and reduce the stress of paying for treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game included the LVC Cheerleaders, dance team, Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) and an enthusiastic crowd of supporters from the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pink Game allows the whole LVC community to come together to support a great cause,\u201d Lehr said.<\/p>\n<p>An added bonus \u2013 the Dutchmen defeated Widener 74-65.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By: Jolie Winemiller, Staff Writer Lebanon Valley College\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team not only took the court to defeat Widener University, but they also took on the fight against breast cancer. During the annual Pink Game <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2018\/02\/05\/basketball-battles-breast-cancer\/\" title=\"Basketball battles breast cancer\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}