{"id":18638,"date":"2013-01-22T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=56271"},"modified":"2016-06-08T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:07:59","slug":"umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Rugby Players Spend Weekend in Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For members of the University of Mary Washington club rugby team, Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend was all about community service. The players painted porches, spread mulch and cleaned up properties for Empowerhouse, formerly known as the Rappahannock Council on Domestic Violence. The team plans for another service day in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.fredericksburg.com\/newsdesk\/2013\/01\/19\/umw-rugby-team-sponsors-annual-service-project\/\">\u201cUMW Rugby Team Sponsors Annual Service Project\u201d in <em>The Free Lance-Star<\/em> on Saturday, Jan. 19<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0159\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56291\" title=\"DSC_0159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0159-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0093\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56311\" title=\"DSC_0093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0093-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0112\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56331\" title=\"DSC_0112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0112-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0167\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56301\" title=\"DSC_0167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0167-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0124\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56281\" title=\"DSC_0124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0124-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Kimmie Barkley \u201914<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For members of the University of Mary Washington club rugby team, Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend was all about community service. The players painted porches, spread mulch and cleaned up properties for Empowerhouse, formerly known as the Rappahannock Council on Domestic Violence. The team plans for another service day in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.fredericksburg.com\/newsdesk\/2013\/01\/19\/umw-rugby-team-sponsors-annual-service-project\/\">&#8220;UMW Rugby Team Sponsors Annual Service Project&#8221; in <em>The Free Lance-Star<\/em> on Saturday, Jan. 19<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0159\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56291\" title=\"DSC_0159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0159-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Knapp paints a porch for Empowerhouse. His shirt reflects the team&#8217;s nickname &#8212; Mother&#8217;s Rugby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0093\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56311\" title=\"DSC_0093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0093-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Wehr (center) takes a break from painting to talk with members of the team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 209px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0112\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56331\" title=\"DSC_0112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0112-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Barnikel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0167\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56301\" title=\"DSC_0167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0167-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team spent the weekend at Empowerhouse&#8217;s new residence in downtown Fredericksburg and at its public outreach office on Harrison Road<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/umw-rugby-players-spend-weekend-in-service\/dsc_0124\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56281\" title=\"DSC_0124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/DSC_0124-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christophe Perdu, a member of the UMW rugby team, painted a railing at Empowerhouse&#8217;s new location<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Photos by Kimmie Barkley &#8217;14<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5991,"featured_media":18673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[82,116],"tags":[8860,274,8861],"class_list":{"0":"post-18638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newsletter-top-story","8":"category-whats-new-umw","9":"tag-club-sports","10":"tag-community-service","11":"tag-rugby","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}