{"id":253,"date":"2015-09-08T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfredarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2015-09-08T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:42:55","slug":"sentinel-pines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2015\/09\/08\/sentinel-pines\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel Pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/pine-trees-sept2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/pine-trees-sept2015.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Pine Trees Sept2015\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>These pine trees stand watch over the campus, providing summer shade and respite from the snow and wind in the winter. According to the June 1879 &#8220;Alfred Student&#8221; publication, in the spring of that year &#8220;seventy-five evergreens were planted on the Campus, most of them in the vicinity of the Chapel [Alumni Hall].&#8221; These iconic trees are even part of our alma mater: &#8220;Nestled away &#8216;mid the Empire State hills, &#8216;Neath the watch-care of sentinel pines&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These pine trees stand watch over the campus, providing summer shade and respite from the snow and wind in the winter. According to the June 1879 &#8220;Alfred Student&#8221; publication, in the spring of that year &#8220;seventy-five evergreens were planted on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2015\/09\/08\/sentinel-pines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}