{"id":209272,"date":"2018-12-14T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=209272"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:11:03","slug":"stress-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2018\/12\/14\/stress-busters\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress Busters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miniature horses and puppies, a pet project of the Office of Health Promotions, are helping students at Montclair State cope with finals stress. There were plenty of nuzzles and paw-fect social media posts as students petted puppies in the Sprague Library and miniature horses \u2014 wearing tiny (and adorable) sneakers \u2014 in a resident hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sneakers are cute, there\u2019s so stylish, I want some,\u201d sophomore Maniya Ross joked, a smile spreading across her face after a really stressful week. \u201cI feel so happy at this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/121318_1441_Miniature-Ponies-s.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/121318_1441_Miniature-Ponies-s.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Student taking photo with arm around miniature horse wearing sneakers\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Campus partners are providing the programs to help students during this most demanding time of the year. \u201cThis is a way for students to take a break and decompress,\u201d says Marie Cascarano, coordinator of health promotions. \u201cOften students sacrifice taking care of themselves in hopes of getting better grades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the week, special events on nutrition, sleep and relaxation rooms helped students stay on track and remain productive, but the cute factor of the therapeutic puppies and tiny horses, melted hearts, earning a chorus of awwws.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adorable miniature horses and puppies calm end-of-the semester stress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209277,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272\/revisions\/209277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}