{"id":28210,"date":"2017-10-13T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28210"},"modified":"2017-10-13T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T17:31:17","slug":"campus-geraniums-fall-victim-to-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28210","title":{"rendered":"Campus geraniums fall victim to freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9145.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28248\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9145.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9145-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9145-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9145-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9145-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28250\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9840-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9840-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9840-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9840-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9840-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Getz, grounds and nursery, Facilities Services (left), helps Anja Wynne, executive director, Human Resources, select geraniums at a 2015 giveaway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Facilities Services grounds staff members cancelled a scheduled Oct. 18 geranium give away following freezing temperatures earlier this\u00a0week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The freeze just got them,&#8221; Rob Dougherty, s<span class=\"phonesearch_title\">enior executive director, Facilities Services, said. &#8220;The big plants did OK, but the little ones, not so much.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Monday and Tuesday, Colorado Springs experienced overnight low temperatures in the 20s as well as light snow. The earlier-than-normal\u00a0cold temperatures\u00a0came early and caused the demise of the geraniums, a popular annual bedding plant.<\/p>\n<p>Dougherty hopes to resume the annual campus geranium give-away next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Facilities Services grounds staff members cancelled a scheduled Oct. 18 geranium give away following freezing temperatures earlier this week. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28210\" title=\"Campus geraniums fall victim to freeze\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_9840.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-7l0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28210"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28253,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210\/revisions\/28253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}