  {"id":83737,"date":"2018-08-28T10:37:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=83737"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:48:49","slug":"uh-hilo-basketball-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/28\/uh-hilo-basketball-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Students enjoy renovated <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo basketball court"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_83741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83741\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/hilo-basketball-court-renovation.jpg\" alt=\"Students playing basketball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/hilo-basketball-court-renovation.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/hilo-basketball-court-renovation-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students playing basketball on the newly renovated <span aria-label=\u201cPuulii\u201d>Pu&#699;uli&#699;i<\/span> basketball court.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> are enjoying the newly renovated <span aria-label=\"Puulii\">Pu&#699;uli&#699;i<\/span> basketball court. The old court was repaved, and the surrounding area has been transformed into a place for students to gather and socialize.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Puulii\">Pu&#699;uli&#699;i<\/span> basketball court is equipped with an outdoor grill and covered picnic tables with solar charging stations for laptops, tablets and phones.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Students can enjoy the view while playing a pick-up basketball game, or just hanging out and using electronic devices at the four covered solar powered picnic tables,&rdquo; said <strong>Brenda Hamane<\/strong>, director of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo special projects. &ldquo;The gazebo and outdoor grill are the perfect amenities to host a variety of student social and recreational activities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Interim Chancellor <strong>Marcia Sakai<\/strong> and Interim Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs <strong>Kalei Rapoza<\/strong> provided funds to outfit the area with four solar powered picnic tables equipped with e-charging stations, a gazebo, an outdoor grill and a water fountain.<\/p>\n<p>The idea to refurbish the court and build the additional amenities was initiated by <strong>Tim Moore<\/strong>,  executive director for campus recreation, who envisioned a place where students could play pick-up basketball and socialize, which was one of the top recreational requests identified in a recent student survey. <\/p>\n<p>For the full article go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2018\/08\/21\/new-outdoor-gathering-place-for-uh-hilo-students\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/\">From <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Susan Enright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Puulii\">Pu&#699;uli&#699;i<\/span> basketball court is equipped with an outdoor grill and covered picnic tables with solar charging stations for laptops, tablets and phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[82,91,14,907],"class_list":["post-83737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-basketball","tag-student-life","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83737"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113570,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83737\/revisions\/113570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}