{"id":2516,"date":"2018-09-05T18:19:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T22:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoodcomstudies.com\/theblueandgrey\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T22:28:08","slug":"annual-convocation-and-dinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/05\/annual-convocation-and-dinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Convocation and Dinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoodcomstudies.com\/theblueandgrey\/index.php\/2018\/09\/05\/annual-convocation-and-dinking\/img_20180826_190501\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2519\" src=\"http:\/\/hoodcomstudies.com\/theblueandgrey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180826_190501-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180826_190501-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180826_190501-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hood College Convocation Ceremony was held on a very hot Sunday, Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what our rising freshmen had to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe heat was suffocating. Faces and voiced blurred together in melted pool, with the only words floating at the top being a thousand variations of \u2018God, it\u2019s so hot.\u2019\u201d-Keiko Cahill<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a freshman I came into the convocation ceremony very confused. Once I learned about the tradition of the dinks and the ceremony I was excited to receive mine and become apart of the Hood community.\u201d -Delaney Crawford<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ceremony lasted for far too long in the hot sun according to students and staff, but the addresses from president chap and our guest speaker were very well received.\u201d -Matthew Wilder<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Hood College Convocation Ceremony was held on a very hot Sunday, Aug. 26. Here\u2019s what our rising freshmen had to say: \u201cThe heat was suffocating. Faces and voiced blurred together in melted pool, with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/05\/annual-convocation-and-dinking\/\" title=\"Annual Convocation and Dinking\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}