{"id":19978,"date":"2012-12-11T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=19978"},"modified":"2012-12-11T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:28:21","slug":"students-get-canine-comfort-to-ease-exam-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/12\/students-get-canine-comfort-to-ease-exam-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Students get canine comfort to ease exam stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_19980\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/puppy-room-banner.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19980\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19980 \" title=\"Puppy Room\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/puppy-room-banner.jpg\" alt=\"A puppy room with therapy dogs will be set up in the Kenmore Centre Wednesday and Thursday to help students cope with exam stress. \" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A puppy room with therapy dogs will be set up in the Kenmore Centre Wednesday and Thursday to help students cope with exam stress. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s the dog days of exam time.<\/p>\n<p>To help students cope with the stress of writing finals, Brock University Students&#8217; Union and Student Health Services are providing some four-legged relief by setting up a puppy room for students to visit with <a title=\"St. John Ambulance Therapy Dogs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sja.ca\/Ontario\/CommunityServices\/Programs\/Pages\/TherapyDogServices.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">St. John Ambulance therapy dogs. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pooches will be on campus Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the <a title=\"Kenmore Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/blogs\/campus-map\/kenmore-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kenmore Centre,<\/a> where there will be up to four dogs on hand to help students paws &#8211; er, pause &#8211; their studying.<\/p>\n<p>Puppy rooms have <a title=\"Puppy Room Video\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/54908289\" target=\"_blank\">proven to be a popular stress reliever at other universities<\/a> that have turned to canine comfort to help students deal with the pressure of exams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help students cope with the stress of writing finals, Brock University Students&#8217; Union and Student Health Services are providing some four-legged relief by setting up a puppy room for students to visit with St. John Ambulance therapy dogs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[133,718,71,717],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19983,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978\/revisions\/19983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}