{"id":277,"date":"2011-07-01T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=277"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T15:59:33","slug":"dan-brandt-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2011\/07\/01\/dan-brandt-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Brandt &#8217;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By WENDI WHEELER &#8217;06<\/p>\n<p>Major: marketing<\/p>\n<p>Internship: Minnesota Twins Public Affairs Office<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-278\" title=\"Dan-Brandt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/Dan-Brandt.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Brandt on baseball field\" width=\"364\" height=\"245\" \/>What are you doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I bring the children of major donors and long-time season ticket holders onto the field for batting practice so they can see what happens and meet the players. I also coordinate a few of the opening pitches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have you learned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have learned how much goes into the presentation of a professional sporting event. There is so much that you don&#8217;t see or hear about that&#8217;s behind the scenes to make a baseball game run.<!--more--><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the value of your internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have had a lot of unique experiences\u2014meeting people, networking, and doing things out of the ordinary that most people don&#8217;t get to do. At some point I would like to have a career in this field, but it is very competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By WENDI WHEELER &#8217;06 Major: marketing Internship: Minnesota Twins Public Affairs Office What are you doing? I bring the children of major donors and long-time season ticket holders onto the field for batting practice so they can see what happens and meet the players. I also coordinate a few of the opening pitches. What have <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-summer-2011"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7900,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}