{"id":5192,"date":"2019-12-12T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=5192"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:59:33","slug":"uw-oshkosh-alumnus-moves-forward-gives-back","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-oshkosh-alumnus-moves-forward-gives-back\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Oshkosh alumnus moves forward, gives back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/OSH_02_Africa_IMG_0033-scaled-e1574787058227.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/OSH_02_Africa_IMG_0033-scaled-e1574787058227-1024x567.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of UW-Oshkosh alumnus Patrick Gaughan, Class of \u201971, in Central Africa working with Smile Train in his second career as a registered nurse.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/OSH_02_Africa_IMG_0033-scaled-e1574787058227-1024x567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/OSH_02_Africa_IMG_0033-scaled-e1574787058227-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/OSH_02_Africa_IMG_0033-scaled-e1574787058227-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/OSH_02_Africa_IMG_0033-scaled-e1574787058227-1536x851.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/OSH_02_Africa_IMG_0033-scaled-e1574787058227-2048x1135.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UW-Oshkosh <\/strong>alumnus Patrick Gaughan, Class of \u201971, is taking lifelong learning seriously. After a 28-year career in public service with the city of Jacksonville, Florida, he returned to school to <a href=\"https:\/\/uwosh.edu\/today\/75955\/uwo-alumni-reinvent-themselves-continue-to-serve-others-in-twilight-of-careers\/\">become a registered nurse<\/a> and has since discovered a whole new world overseas as a medical missionary. His inspiring <a href=\"https:\/\/uwosh.edu\/today\/78038\/moving-forward-giving-back\/\">work with Smile Train<\/a> in central Africa is changing lives, providing more than 500 cleft palate surgeries in the past five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; UW-Oshkosh alumnus Patrick Gaughan, Class of \u201971, is taking lifelong learning seriously. After a 28-year career in public service with the city of Jacksonville, Florida, he returned to school to become a registered nurse and has since discovered a whole new world overseas as a medical missionary. His inspiring work with Smile Train in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[94],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-5192","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-oshkosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/5192","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=5192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}