{"id":157142,"date":"2019-12-13T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=157142"},"modified":"2019-12-12T13:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:49:31","slug":"uconn-bands-kids-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/12\/uconn-bands-kids-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Bands: Kids That Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What originated from the UConn Entertainment Group\u2014which promotes student artists on campus\u2014Kids That Fly has gone on to play at UConn\u2019s Spring Weekend, open for UCONNIC, and perform at HuskyTHON. The members of the band are: Jacob Stockman &#8217;21 (BUS); Nicholas Smeriglio &#8217;21 (BUS); Braden Frandino &#8217;20 (SFA); and Blake Henry &#8217;20 (SFA). Check out how the band got their start and what they hope their future holds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"UConn Bands: Kids That Fly | UConn\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2tQg7DaLUQA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From its beginnings in the UConn Entertainment Group, student band Kids That Fly has become a popular attraction on campus and beyond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":157143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1711,1862,1914,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-157142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-busn","category-sfa","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","post_format-post-format-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 04:38:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157146,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157142\/revisions\/157146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/157143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157142"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=157142"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=157142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}