{"id":8558,"date":"2026-01-28T00:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:54:20","slug":"maroons-talk-conquering-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8558","title":{"rendered":"Maroons Talk: Conquering Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a week\u2019s worth of recharging, the Maroons return to conquer the rest of the semester. However, sometimes, it takes a second to get back into the swing of things after such a break, and it isn\u2019t always easy; so, let\u2019s see what some folks at \u2018Noke were up to this past Fall break and how they\u2019re settling back in as we approach the grand finale of spooky season: Halloween.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you find it easy to get back into routine after Fall Break? What do you plan on doing to get back into the flow of things? (Ashlynn Diggs Class of \u201829) &#8211; \u201cI think it\u2019s pretty hard to get back into routine after fall break because I got used to being free-flowing and being with friends, and now all of a sudden I can\u2019t do that as frequently. It was tough starting on Monday, but I pushed through it. I plan on avoiding energy drinks and naps so that I can reset my sleep routine alongside heading to the library and getting big jumpstarts on work whenever I get motivated.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is your Fall Break highlight?\u00a0 (Kent Turner\u00a0 Class of \u2018 27) &#8211; \u201cMy fall break highlight was becoming an uncle! I visited my brother\u2019s newborn in Durham, North Carolina, which made for a fantastic day trip.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you think is an essential Halloween or horror movie? Why? (Kai Rasmussen Class of \u201829) &#8211; \u201cJohn Carpenter\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Thing <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1982) is an essential movie because of the distrust that ensues between the characters because of \u2018The Thing,\u2019 and I just think that the practical effects are freaking cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance Redd<\/p>\n<p>Staff Reporter<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week\u2019s worth of recharging, the Maroons return to conquer the rest of the semester. However, sometimes, it takes a second to get back into the swing of things after such a break, and it isn\u2019t always easy; so, let\u2019s see what some folks at \u2018Noke were up to this past Fall break and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8559,"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-8558","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\/8558","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}