{"id":609,"date":"2012-03-29T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=609"},"modified":"2012-12-26T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:46:08","slug":"ot-students-attend-legislative-day-at-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2012\/03\/29\/ot-students-attend-legislative-day-at-state-house\/","title":{"rendered":"OT students attend Legislative Day at State House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-610\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"Legislative Day and Aquatics 033\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-033-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-033-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-033-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Students from Belmont University School of Occupational Therapy recently attended OT Legislative Day at the state capital sponsored by the Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association (TNOTA).\u00a0 The students joined with peers from University of Tennessee at Memphis and Tennessee State University to meet with House and Senate members to educate them about the importance of OT services in the state of Tennessee. TNOTA President and Belmont Associate Professor, Dr. Jeanne Sowers has organized this learning and political advocacy initiative for the past several years. Lunch was provided by the association and enabled the different student groups to share their OT experiences.\u00a0 Following Legislative Day, students and faculty from the universities toured Governor Haslam\u2019s executive residence and the adjourning Celebration Hall.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-611 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Legislative Day and Aquatics 026\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-026-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-026-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-026-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-612 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Legislative Day and Aquatics 027\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-027-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-027-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-027-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-613 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Legislative Day and Aquatics 029\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-029-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-029-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-029-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-615 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Legislative Day and Aquatics 024\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-024-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-024-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-024-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-616 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Legislative Day and Aquatics 025\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-025-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-025-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Legislative-Day-and-Aquatics-025-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Students from Belmont University School of Occupational Therapy recently attended OT Legislative Day at the state capital sponsored by the Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association (TNOTA).\u00a0 The students joined with peers from University of Tennessee at Memphis and Tennessee State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2012\/03\/29\/ot-students-attend-legislative-day-at-state-house\/\">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":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-occupational-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}