{"id":3368,"date":"2017-05-09T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2017-05-09T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:17:09","slug":"liberty-expands-seating-for-trump-visit-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3368","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Expands Seating for Trump Visit at Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University spent around $200,000 to temporarily expand seating at its stadium to accommodate more guests for this weekend&#8217;s commencement ceremony featuring President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Deter is the university&#8217;s vice president of major construction planning and construction. He tells the News &#038; Advance (http:\/\/bit.ly\/2pX178d ) planning for how to maximize seating in Liberty&#8217;s Williams Stadium began the day after the announcement that Trump would deliver the keynote address.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper reports the visitors&#8217; locker room in the south end zone was demolished to provide more space. Deter says added seating has increased the stadium&#8217;s capacity of 19,200 to 36,000.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/virginia\/articles\/2017-05-09\/liberty-expands-seating-for-trump-visit-at-commencement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University spent around $200,000 to temporarily expand seating at its stadium to accommodate more guests for this weekend&#8217;s commencement ceremony featuring President Donald Trump.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3368\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty Expands Seating for Trump Visit at Commencement<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduation","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9798.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-Sk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}