{"id":150,"date":"2014-07-09T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/?p=150"},"modified":"2014-07-09T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:16:16","slug":"goodbye-and-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/2014\/07\/09\/goodbye-and-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye... and hello!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember your graduation day?<\/p>\n<p>It can be a bit\u2026 well\u2026 emotional, as you say goodbye to the place you\u2019ve called home for the last three years or more. But it\u2019s also a new beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Three days of ceremonies in the Abbey last week \u2013 many presided over by our new Chancellor, HRH The Earl of Wessex \u2013 saw thousands of students become Bath graduates.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, we in the Alumni Relations team take time out to greet new graduates, their families and friends, and press a goody bag into their hands. It\u2019s one of the highlights of the year for us when, on behalf of Bath alumni everywhere, we welcome new graduates into our thriving alumni community.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2014\/07\/graduation-goodbye-2.jpg\" alt=\"Graduation 2014 goodbye\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2014\/07\/graduation-goodbye-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2014\/07\/graduation-goodbye-2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raise a glass to that...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year we also asked new graduates to record their \u201cGoodbye\u201d \u2013 what they would miss about Bath ...<\/p>\n<p>... or \u201cHello\u201d \u2013 what they were looking forward to next.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2014\/07\/graduation-hello.jpg\" alt=\"Graduation 2014 hello\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2014\/07\/graduation-hello.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2014\/07\/graduation-hello-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enjoy it \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a title=\"Graduation 2014 on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uniofbathalumni\/sets\/72157645166535230\/\" target=\"_blank\">See more\u00a0Hellos and Goodbyes in our Flickr gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember your graduation day? It can be a bit\u2026 well\u2026 emotional, as you say goodbye to the place you\u2019ve called home for the last three years or more. But it\u2019s also a new beginning. Three days of ceremonies...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,28,42,9],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-campus","tag-alumni","tag-graduation","tag-on-campus","tag-university-of-bath"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/on-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}