{"id":6664,"date":"2022-03-18T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:50:13","slug":"pres-ball-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"Pres Ball is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devon Mitchell\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 14th annual President\u2019s Ball is this Saturday, March 19th. After a two-year hiatus, students are excited to get back to the beloved Roanoke tradition and dance the night away.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tradition of Pres Ball, as most students call it, began when President Maxey first became president. The week after fall break, all students would be invited by the President and his wife to a kind of homecoming dance. Usually held in the Colket Center, each floor housed different music genres, games, food, and live music.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s theme is \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d. President Maxey\u2019s final Pres Ball before retirement will look different. To take precautions to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak, the festivities will be moved to the Cregger Center, and masks will be required. It will also be half the student body\u2019s first Pres Ball. Juniors and seniors alike are excited to once again be able to dress up and share the experience with sophomores and freshmen who have yet to attend a Pres Ball.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs a senior who lost a majority of their normal college experience, I was hoping that Pres Ball would still happen, and I am thrilled it is,\u201d said Grace Robinson, one of the lucky few to attend Pres Ball before this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grace offered this piece of advice for anyone not sure if they should attend, \u201cGo to Pres Ball, it is worth the hype that the seniors and juniors are talking about. Go, celebrate, and dance!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Devon Mitchell\u00a0 The 14th annual President\u2019s Ball is this Saturday, March 19th. After a two-year hiatus, students are excited to get back to the beloved Roanoke tradition and dance the night away.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The tradition of Pres Ball, as most students call it, began when President Maxey first became president. The week after fall break,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6665,"comment_status":"closed","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":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","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=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}