{"id":1398,"date":"2018-05-21T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2018-05-21T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:53:07","slug":"meet-monty-the-exam-de-stress-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2018\/05\/21\/meet-monty-the-exam-de-stress-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Monty &#8211; the exam de-stress dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u00a0are missing your pets, or would like to spend some time in the company of a friendly\u00a0dog, then come and\u00a0meet Monty.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 25 May, staff and students from the School of Computing have the opportunity to relax with a canine companion. Monty the cockapoo will be available for cuddles from 10.00-12.00 on the veranda of The Shed in Cornwallis.<\/p>\n<p>Orla Garratt, Marketing and Communications Manager for the school said; &#8216;This is the second time that Monty has visited the School after he enjoyed the attention on his first visit during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/news.html?view=1365\">wellbeing week<\/a> in March. Lots of students who have pets at their family home enjoyed spending time with him as they were missing their own animals.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Other tools are available to help students through the stresses of the exam period such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/campusonline\/news.html?view=2571\">wellbeing app<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/staff-student-news\/2017\/12\/01\/online-mental-health-and-wellbeing-support-for-students\/\">Big White Wall<\/a>\u00a0confidential support website.<\/p>\n<p>Students can also contact the University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/studentsupport\/wellbeing\/\">wellbeing team<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/kentunion.co.uk\/welfare\/\">Kent Union\u00a0<\/a>for further advice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u00a0are missing your pets, or would like to spend some time in the company of a friendly\u00a0dog, then come and\u00a0meet Monty. On Friday 25 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2018\/05\/21\/meet-monty-the-exam-de-stress-dog\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":1366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[398,37,86146,127013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}