{"id":8693,"date":"2026-01-30T02:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:56:18","slug":"maroons-talk-a-wintry-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8693","title":{"rendered":"Maroons Talk: A Wintry Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope everyone experienced a warm welcome back to campus as they settled in throughout January. Though I\u2019m certain that while the welcome may have been warm, the weather certainly wasn\u2019t; Roanoke hasn\u2019t gotten this sort of snow and ice in a long while, so it seems like nature is keeping us on our frostbitten toes! Regardless, it would be nice to check out how everyone is doing after this sudden wintry welcome. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the multiple days of closure and plenty of snow and ice outside, how have you been spending your extended weekend? &#8211; \u201cI\u2019ve been spending a majority of my time with my friends; we\u2019ve started doing some cooking together and, of course, going out in the snow. I\u2019ve also spent a good deal of time playing games in my room with some friends back home.\u201d &#8211; Spencer Tolley (Class of \u201829)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you satisfied with the amount of snow we got? Or do you think it was a tad underwhelming compared to the hype? &#8211; \u201cAs someone who has lived in Virginia for a long time, I promise you that it isn\u2019t normally like this. But I would say that I am certainly satisfied with the snow, but honestly, it was kind of unfortunate to have the school closed for so long.\u201d &#8211; Daniel Asbury (Class of \u201829)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are you personally looking forward to most in this Spring Semester? &#8211; \u201cI am looking forward to the continuation of the club soccer season as there are multiple games scheduled and I have recently become part of the executive board, which is really exciting.\u201d &#8211; The Brackety-Ack&#8217;s very own Ruben Krishna (Class of \u201829)<\/p>\n<p>Vance Redd<\/p>\n<p>Staff Reporter<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone experienced a warm welcome back to campus as they settled in throughout January. Though I\u2019m certain that while the welcome may have been warm, the weather certainly wasn\u2019t; Roanoke hasn\u2019t gotten this sort of snow and ice in a long while, so it seems like nature is keeping us on our frostbitten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":8694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folks-at-noke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SH_7584.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}