{"id":2222,"date":"2016-08-22T15:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2016-10-06T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:43:29","slug":"whittier-college-at-the-end-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/2016\/08\/22\/whittier-college-at-the-end-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Whittier College at the end of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up partly in a college town, and I’ve been around college campuses most of my life. One of my favorite times of year is this\u00a0late-summer empty moment that happens\u00a0after summer sessions finish and before classes start for the fall.\u00a0It’s peaceful; you get a clearer view of the space.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Whittier College looks like this time\u00a0of year.<\/p>\n

\"whittier-summer<\/a>
Courtyard of the Campus Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

\"whittier-summer<\/a>
Uphill into the center of campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Out<\/a>
Out towards the street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"whittier-summer<\/a>
Outside the building where I’m teaching.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"An<\/a>
An empty garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"No<\/a>
No one’s visiting Nixon’s memorial.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\""Don't<\/a>
“Don’t befriend creepy people online,” says a chalk text.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I confess I avoided a handful of passers-by in taking these photographs, but the sense of momentary social emptiness\u00a0is very real nevertheless, as if emptiness was\u00a0one moment at\u00a0the far end of a swinging\u00a0pendulum of social motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grew up partly in a college town, and I’ve been around college campuses most of my life. One of my favorite times of year is this\u00a0late-summer empty moment that happens\u00a0after summer sessions finish and before classes start for the fall.\u00a0It’s peaceful; you get a clearer view of the space. Here’s what Whittier College looks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[485,495,497],"tags":[505,571,755,695],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}