{"id":36,"date":"2008-05-16T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-06-08T20:06:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T02:06:33","slug":"gs-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"G&#8217;s Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my brother G walked for his PhD graduation.  I took off work to go down to the campus for the ceremony.  It was really exciting, but also a little sad as I got nostalgic over my time in academia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is my brother getting hooded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i125.photobucket.com\/albums\/p72\/colors27\/hoodedcopy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right after the ceremony he shared an excited hug with K.   \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i125.photobucket.com\/albums\/p72\/colors27\/IMG_3124.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was like a movie star, signing autographs on the programs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i125.photobucket.com\/albums\/p72\/colors27\/IMG_3128.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a small reception outside.  The food was delicious.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i125.photobucket.com\/albums\/p72\/colors27\/IMG_3129.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mikey took some family photos of us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i125.photobucket.com\/albums\/p72\/colors27\/IMG_3191.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And of course the &#8216;showing off the hood&#8217; butt shot.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i125.photobucket.com\/albums\/p72\/colors27\/IMG_3196.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations G!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my brother G walked for his PhD graduation. I took off work to go down to the campus for the ceremony. It was really exciting, but also a little sad as I got nostalgic over my time in academia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigmert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}