{"id":154316,"date":"2023-06-14T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=154316"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:10:18","slug":"video-scenes-from-a-spring-day-on-the-historic-quad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/14\/video-scenes-from-a-spring-day-on-the-historic-quad\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Scenes from a spring day during Short Term on the Historic Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summer officially starts in two weeks, but it appeared in full swing last month \u2014 at the height of Short Term \u2014 when students moved around the Historic Quad on bikes and skates, others busting out dance moves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a celebration exploded at the steps of Coram Library with a toast and a hug to honor a thesis binding, students elsewhere lounged in the grass, against trees, in Adirondack chairs, one read in a hammock. Many worked away on laptops. Others were ready for some veg time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a small crowd enjoyed an impromptu dance rehearsal performed by two students it was clear: It&#8217;s Short Term at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">On the Quad<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter is-light vertical-embed-wrapper\" style=\"min-height:268px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-white-background-color has-background-dim-60 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"330\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OjMzYOcSemk\" title=\"Bates...the Quad...Spring!\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\t<style id=\"bates-page-specific-css\/css\" class=\"wp-block-bates-page-specific-css-css\">.vertical-embed-wrapper {\n\tpadding: 0;\n}<\/style> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer officially starts in two weeks, but it appeared in full swing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":154520,"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":[11012],"tags":[11198],"class_list":["post-154316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life","tag-historic-quad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154316","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154316"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169901,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154316\/revisions\/169901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}