{"id":8135,"date":"2025-01-17T02:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2025-01-17T02:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:11:57","slug":"maroons-talk-winter-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8135","title":{"rendered":"Maroons Talk: Winter Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the winter chill settles in and students return from their winter break, many are reflecting on their experiences and the little things that make this season unique. From thrilling adventures to quiet moments of contemplation, the winter months often bring both excitement and deep thought. In this article, we take a look at some of the ways Roanoke College students embraced their winter break and how they are making the most of the cold wealthier as the semester gets underway.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In response to \u201cWhat was the most exciting or thrilling thing that happened over winter break?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jamie Brooks \u201926 said, \u201cI got to go spend New Year\u2019s at the Outer Banks with one of my friends over break. It was pretty exciting for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In response to \u201cAre you enjoying the winter weather while it lasts?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Haan Vipperman \u201825 said, \u201cThe winter weather lets me reflect on the trivial things. I love seeing all the tiny snowmen that people make, the way icicles form on trees, and piles of snow everywhere.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0In response to the question \u201cWhat is your favorite snow-like activity?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Andrea Flores \u201826 said, \u201cMy favorite snow-like activity would be sledding because I can\u2019t fall as easily as ice skates. It is a lot of fun going down a hill at full speed. Last Saturday, I went with some family friends to a snowy hill and one of my family friends made a ramp midway and I went flying off it when I went down, it was exciting.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adriana Rose<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staff Reporter\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the winter chill settles in and students return from their winter break, many are reflecting on their experiences and the little things that make this season unique. From thrilling adventures to quiet moments of contemplation, the winter months often bring both excitement and deep thought. In this article, we take a look at some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8141,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folks-at-noke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}