{"id":24668,"date":"2015-03-30T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=24668"},"modified":"2015-03-30T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T06:32:11","slug":"students-and-alumni-reminisce-on-graduation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/24668","title":{"rendered":"Students and alumni reminisce on graduation day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyama Campus\uff1a2015\/3\/22\uff5e3\/26<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150327_01.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Okuma Auditorium<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150327_02.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front gate on graduation day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150327_03.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toyama campus on graduation day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150327_04.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherry blossom trees at the south gate see graduates off<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Waseda University&#8217;s graduation ceremonies were held on March 25-26, marking the next stage of life for students.<\/p>\n<p>Toyama campus was painted with the colors of hakamas (traditional Japanese clothing) worn by graduates. Students welcomed graduation day with sadness and excitement &#8211; sad for the inevitable separation from friends and excitement for the next stage of life.<\/p>\n<p>Student tour guides offered &#8220;Graduation Ceremony Tours&#8221; to alumni. Tour participants reminisced on their days as students on the once familiar campus while the blooming cherry blossoms at the south gate watched over them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyama Campus\uff1a2015\/3\/22\uff5e3\/26 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Waseda University&#8217;s graduation ceremonies were held on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-24668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-students-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}