{"id":36337,"date":"2018-11-28T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=36337"},"modified":"2018-12-10T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T19:59:20","slug":"join-the-uccs-float-at-the-colorado-springs-festival-of-lights-dec-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=36337","title":{"rendered":"Join the UCCS float at the Colorado Springs Festival of Lights Dec. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28920\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28920\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-750x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurora Herter, age 3, granddaughter of Gary Reynolds, in the UCCS float.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s time for the UCCS community to bundle up and show campus pride in the 34th annual\u00a0Festival of Lights Parade. This year&#8217;s parade starts at 5:50 p.m. Dec. 1 in downtown Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty, staff, students and family members are encouraged to wear their UCCS gear and march past more than 60,000 spectators. Last year, more than 50 campus individuals joined the float through downtown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This parade has become a long-standing tradition at UCCS and allows us a wonderful opportunity to show the excitement of campus with our Colorado Springs friends and neighbors,&#8221; said Stephen Cucchiara, director of student activities and community service.<\/p>\n<p>Marchers are asked to RSVP with <a href=\"mailto: kwatson@uccs.edu\">Kennedy Watson<\/a>, special events coordinator in Student Life, and meet at the staging location on the northwest corner of N. Tejon St. and Cache la Poudre St. by 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It\u2019s time for the UCCS community to bundle up and show campus pride in the 34th annual\u00a0Festival of Lights Parade. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=36337\" title=\"Join the UCCS float at the Colorado Springs Festival of Lights Dec. 1\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28920,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[63,60],"class_list":["post-36337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-student-life","tag-student-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/UCCS-float.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-9s5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36337","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36339,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36337\/revisions\/36339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}