{"id":203703,"date":"2014-02-11T20:42:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=17870"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:33:43","slug":"uconn-ewb-completes-nicaragua-roadway-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/02\/uconn-ewb-completes-nicaragua-roadway-project-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn EWB Completes Nicaragua Roadway Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nic2a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17797 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nic2a-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"nic2a\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/284;\" \/><\/a>In January, seniors Andrew Silva, Christopher M. Regan, Jr., and Ashley Jackman \u2013 accompanied by mentor\u00a0Gerry Hardisty\u00a0of Civil Engineering Services, LLC \u2013 spent 11 days in Nicaragua fulfilling a mission initially begun in 2008. The focus of their efforts is a dirt road that becomes impassable each year due to seasonal torrential rains. Commenting on the journey, Regan said \u201cThe most satisfying aspect was to gain real-world practical experience while making such a huge impact on the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, seniors Andrew Silva, Christopher M. Regan, Jr., and Ashley Jackman \u2013 accompanied by mentor\u00a0Gerry Hardisty\u00a0of Civil Engineering Services, LLC \u2013 spent 11 days in Nicaragua fulfilling a mission initially begun in 2008. The focus of their efforts is a dirt road that becomes impassable each year due to seasonal torrential rains. Commenting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 11:31:25","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\/203703","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\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224275,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203703\/revisions\/224275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203703"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203703"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}