{"id":3552,"date":"2018-02-09T10:52:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2018-02-09T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:52:56","slug":"miller-hall-smokers-persevere-through-wind-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"Miller Hall Smokers Persevere Through Wind and Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Joe Krzyston<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s been a rainy week here at Roanoke College, and many of us stuck closely to the shelter of buildings, venturing outside only to dart to class or commons. Every society has its standouts, however, and ours is no exception. This week, nobody displayed more tenacity and courage than the Miller Hall Smokers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes, when twenty year olds smoke, they do it for silly reasons, to annoy their parents or doctors, but not this crowd. No, they proved that they were in it for the long haul, standing in a cold, bitter rain, huddling under a shelter roughly the size of a postage stamp, taking drags from American Spirits and those weird Marlboros of indeterminate variety with the black and green motif on the packs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s a lifestyle,\u201d said one of the smokers, \u201cand it\u2019s one that we stick to. Like I always say, when you make a commitment, you don\u2019t just make a commitment on the easy days. You make a commitment on the hard days too. So say what you will about what we\u2019re doing- at least it\u2019s an ethos.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Miller Hall Smokers, with an affiliate chapter that meets behind West Hall, is one of RC\u2019s oldest clubs, membership dating back to the fondly remembered days of indoor smoking. Though dwindling in numbers, they maintain a loyal following, one not easily dissuaded by threat of rain or wind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThrow whatever you want at us,\u201d said a leader of the group, \u201cbut there\u2019s not a lot that can knock us down.\u201d She paused, took a drag, and looked out over the rolling hills of the back quad pensively, adding \u201cWell, except maybe some cardiovascular stuff down the road.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Joe Krzyston It\u2019s been a rainy week here at Roanoke College, and many of us stuck closely to the shelter of buildings, venturing outside only to dart to class or commons. Every society has its standouts, however, and ours is no exception. This week, nobody displayed more tenacity and courage than the Miller&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}