{"id":670,"date":"2019-03-25T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/25\/2019325quinnipiac-and-hamden-locals-surpass-qthon-goal\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:34:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:34:48","slug":"2019325quinnipiac-and-hamden-locals-surpass-qthon-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/25\/2019325quinnipiac-and-hamden-locals-surpass-qthon-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinnipiac and Hamden locals surpass QTHON goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">By Michaela Mendygral<\/p>\n<p>   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q6uyNIi6hD4?wmode=opaque&amp;enablejsapi=1\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Quinnipiac University students and local families came together Saturday, March 23, for the Miracle Network Dance Marathon, known as QTHON. Surpassing its initial goal of $323,000, QTHON raised a total of $332,567.12 for the Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIt means a lot to families like ours for you to put together something like this,\u201d said Bill Stratton, the father of Nicholas Stratton, who receives treatment from Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Children who receive treatment from the hospital and their families had an opportunity to partake in video games, coloring, basketball and other activities with students in Quinnipiac University\u2019s Athletic Center from 2 p.m. &#8211; 12 a.m. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cMy favorite part of QTHON is I like hanging out with all the girls,\u201d said Emma, a patient of Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">For many of the children, QTHON is an opportunity for much needed fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cHaving a kid with medical issues you get stuck in a routine so it\u2019s good to get out,\u201d said Stratton. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Quinnipiac students join forces with local Hamden residents to raise hundreds of thousands for the Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}