{"id":5040,"date":"2019-06-28T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=5040"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:33:33","slug":"veteran-finds-passion-in-career-change-from-military-to-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/veteran-finds-passion-in-career-change-from-military-to-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran finds passion in career change from military to healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/06\/ExtCampus_02_Rathkamp_IMG_0051new.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/06\/ExtCampus_02_Rathkamp_IMG_0051new-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of U.S. Army veteran Justin Rathkamp\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Army veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/himt.wisconsin.edu\/experience-uw-himt\/uw-himt-graduate-finds-passion-in-career-change-from-military-service-to-healthcare\/\">Justin Rathkamp<\/a> realized his dream to help fellow veterans after a career change to health care. This busy husband and father appreciated the flexibility offered by a <a href=\"https:\/\/himt.wisconsin.edu\/\"><strong>UW Extended Campus<\/strong> online degree program<\/a>. Hired as the Veterans Experience Officer at Madison\u2019s VA Hospital, Rathkamp now enjoys evenings and weekends with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Army veteran Justin Rathkamp realized his dream to help fellow veterans after a career change to health care. This busy husband and father appreciated the flexibility offered by a UW Extended Campus online degree program. Hired as the Veterans Experience Officer at Madison\u2019s VA Hospital, Rathkamp now enjoys evenings and weekends with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[135],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-5040","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-universities-of-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}