{"id":3291,"date":"2015-02-19T13:19:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2015-02-19T13:19:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:19:19","slug":"pt-students-visit-tennessee-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/02\/19\/pt-students-visit-tennessee-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"PT students visit Tennessee legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3292\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-Day-on-the-Hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3292\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3292\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-Day-on-the-Hill-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"Click to Enlarge Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-Day-on-the-Hill-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-Day-on-the-Hill.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to Enlarge Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Belmont DPT students attended the Tennessee Physical Therapy Association (TPTA) Day on the Hill\u00a0 on February 11, 2015.\u00a0 Scott Newton, TPTA President, and Joe Black, TPTA Legislative Chair, provided an orientation to the legislative process and highlighted a particular bill of interest to PTs.\u00a0 The students were then escorted through Legislative Plaza to the Old Supreme Court Room in the Capitol.\u00a0 Along with PT students from UTC, the students heard an inspiring talk from State Senator Bo Watson who is also a PT.\u00a0 He stressed the importance of the legislative arena for PT practice and urged them to be advocates for their profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belmont DPT students attended the Tennessee Physical Therapy Association (TPTA) Day on the Hill\u00a0 on February 11, 2015.\u00a0 Scott Newton, TPTA President, and Joe Black, TPTA Legislative Chair, provided an orientation to the legislative process and highlighted a particular bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/02\/19\/pt-students-visit-tennessee-legislature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-physical-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}