{"id":97115,"date":"2026-02-13T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=97115"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:07:33","slug":"coke-and-a-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_13_2026\/coke-and-a-hug","title":{"rendered":"Coke and a Hug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia Garg, a sophomore studying biology, hugs a Coke machine to receive a free soft drink. By placing their hands on the Coke machine\u2019s sensors, students triggered the drink&#8217;s release. The Coke machine was on the UToledo campus earlier this week as part of the promotional Coca-Cola Hug Me Tour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97116\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/COKE-HUG-SIDE-3H1A4473.png\" alt=\"Sonia Garg, a sophomore studying biology, hugs a Coke machine to receive a free soft drink.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/COKE-HUG-SIDE-3H1A4473.png 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/COKE-HUG-SIDE-3H1A4473-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_13_2026\/coke-and-a-hug\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/COKE-HUG-SIDE-3H1A4473-150x150.png\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sonia Garg, a sophomore studying biology, hugs a Coke machine to receive a free soft drink.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Sonia Garg, a sophomore studying biology, hugs a Coke machine to receive a free soft drink earlier this week as part of the promotional Coca-Cola Hug Me Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":920,"featured_media":97116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97119,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97115\/revisions\/97119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}