{"id":17807,"date":"2006-01-20T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T20:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=17807"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:52:12","slug":"winters-quad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2006\/01\/20\/winters-quad\/","title":{"rendered":"At winter&#039;s height, the historic Quad goes bare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The historic Quad\u00a0sported a rare dead-of-winter look today:\u00a0bare ground with a hint of green.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA\u00a0full retreat by Old Man Winter is needed to reveal bare ground during the climatologically coldest part of winter. In the last 10 days,\u00a0the high temperature in Lewiston has topped out above 40 degrees six times.\u00a0Storms twice dropped more than 1.5 inches\u00a0of rain\u00a0in the last week. And gusty south winds,\u00a0hitting 45 mph on Jan. 18,\u00a0helped to rake the Quad bare.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/01\/panorama5-quad06-small.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"247\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/01\/panorama5-quad06-small.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Quad\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0early-spring campus look\u00a0comes during Winter Carnival festivities, yet the 50-degree warmth\u00a0promised to comfort one group of Batesies: those prepping for the annual Winter Carnival Puddle Jump at Lake Andrews,\u00a0scheduled for late afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/01\/72puddlejump2137.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"247\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/01\/72puddlejump2137.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Puddle jump\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historic Quad\u00a0sported a rare dead-of-winter look today:\u00a0bare ground with a hint&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"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":[1467,11198,10918],"class_list":["post-17807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","tag-bates-outing-club","tag-historic-quad","tag-puddle-jump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807","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=17807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90171,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions\/90171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}