{"id":145,"date":"2009-04-13T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-04-13T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T18:04:54","slug":"why-i-love-holy-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2009\/04\/13\/why-i-love-holy-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why I love Holy Cross&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-146\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/04\/alyssa-t.jpg\" alt=\"alyssa-t\" width=\"104\" height=\"155\" \/><em>We know you have a big decision to make.\u00a0 Over the next few weeks, members of the Holy Cross community will share their thoughts on what makes Holy Cross so special.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does the College of the Holy Cross have in common with famous designers like Oscar de la Renta, Nanette Lepore, Vivenne Tam, Monique Lhuillier, and Carolina Herrera?\u00a0 The color purple.<\/p>\n<p>Having attended Holy Cross for four fabulous years I have acquired more purple than most people can fathom:\u00a0 I love my purple Holy Cross t-shirt that I wore to my first Holy Cross football game.\u00a0 I love my purple polka-dotted belt that I wore for two amazing summers as a Gateways Orientation Leader.\u00a0 I love my purple headband that I sported at every home basketball game.\u00a0 I love my purple shorts that I wore when I saw Guster in concert during Spring Weekend of my sophomore year.\u00a0 I love my purple shoulder-bag that lugged class books to Dinand library numerous times a week.\u00a0 I love my purple tights that I put on before going to Holy Cross\u2019 on-campus pub my senior year.\u00a0 I love my purple \u201cHoly Cross 2008\u201d banner that now hangs proudly in my office.<\/p>\n<p>Like all Holy Cross Crusaders, I love purple, I have a lot of it, and I am ready for this spring fashion statement.\u00a0 At Holy Cross we are clearly ahead of the fashion curve.\u00a0 We have been wearing purple for ages, and we\u2019ve always made purple look good.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Trometter<br \/>\nAdmissions Counselor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know you have a big decision to make.\u00a0 Over the next few weeks, members of the Holy Cross community will share their thoughts on what makes Holy Cross so special. What does the College of the Holy Cross have in common with famous designers like Oscar de la Renta, Nanette Lepore, Vivenne Tam, Monique &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2009\/04\/13\/why-i-love-holy-cross\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Why I love Holy Cross&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alyssa-trometter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}