{"id":112734,"date":"2018-01-26T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=112734"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:50:15","slug":"video-plowing-garcelon-is-16-miles-forward-16-miles-backward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/26\/video-plowing-garcelon-is-16-miles-forward-16-miles-backward\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Plowing Garcelon means &#8220;16 miles forward, 16 miles backward&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing Garcelon&#8217;s FieldTurf surface is &#8220;a sign of spring and a sign of spring sports,&#8221; says Tim Kivus of Facilities Services.<\/p>\n<p>On this mid-January day, Kivus is driving a red Chevrolet plow truck, which will travel &#8220;16 miles forward and 16 miles backward&#8221; during its plowing operations, says Kivus.<\/p>\n<p>Plowing Garcelon is a three-person project. Fellow grounds crew member Mike Adams operates a Bobcat skid-steer loader while Adam Wright handles a John Deere wheel loader.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Plowing Garcelon Field in mid-January 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/252908087?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though official varsity practices won&#8217;t start until Feb. 15, athletes of all persuasions will take to Garcelon as soon as it&#8217;s clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s excitement any time Garcelon is visible,\u201d says lacrosse player Andrew Small \u201919 of Deerfield, Ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bates grounds crew is fabulous,\u201d says head lacrosse coach Peter Lasagna. \u201cThey work hard to give students the best opportunities to reach their athletic potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing Garcelon&#8217;s FieldTurf surface is &#8220;a sign of spring and a sign of spring sports,&#8221; says Tim Kivus of Facilities Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":112736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,14,11012],"tags":[10804,3748,10834],"class_list":["post-112734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-faculty-staff","category-student-life","tag-facility-services","tag-garcelon-field","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112734"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112760,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112734\/revisions\/112760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}