{"id":1751,"date":"2016-06-06T11:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2016-06-06T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:58:15","slug":"cs-alumnus-and-extraordinary-employee-damian-salas-serves-at-work-and-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2016\/06\/06\/cs-alumnus-and-extraordinary-employee-damian-salas-serves-at-work-and-in-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"CS alumnus and extraordinary employee: Damian Salas serves at work and in the community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 1994, a 17-year-old Damian Salas left his home in Poquoson, Virginia, and moved to Blacksburg, Virginia, to begin this freshman year at Virginia Tech. It wasn\u2019t long before he became immersed in the university community and found himself searching for Hokie sports information that didn\u2019t seem to exist in any one place. For the computer science major, the need for a website dedicated to the university\u2019s athletic teams was a no-brainer. His skills and passion, combined with the emerging World Wide Web, created the perfect opportunity for Salas to \u201cInvent the Future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, Salas, the senior director and webmaster of hokiesports.com, embarks on a 3,785-mile bike trip across the U.S. to raise awareness and funds for multiple sclerosis research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtnews.vt.edu\/email\/pages\/extraordinary-salas-rdr.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 1994, a 17-year-old Damian Salas left his home in Poquoson, Virginia, and moved to Blacksburg, Virginia, to begin this freshman year at Virginia Tech. It wasn\u2019t long before he became immersed in the university community and found himself searching for Hokie sports information that didn\u2019t seem to exist in any one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}