{"id":821,"date":"2010-11-30T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=821"},"modified":"2010-11-30T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:00:20","slug":"giving-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/11\/30\/giving-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/JamesRichardson.BLOG2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-422\" title=\"JamesRichardson.BLOG2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/JamesRichardson.BLOG2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Over the Thanksgiving break, I was able to spend some time reflecting on all of the things that I am thankful for.\u00a0 Below I&#8217;ve listed a few, relating to Holy Cross:<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful for the Guidance Secretaries who worked with us to schedule our many high school visits this fall,\u00a0 and for the cooperation they and their Counselor colleagues showed us when we arrived.<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful for the Faculty, Administrators and fellow Staff here at the College of the Holy Cross with whom I have the pleasure of working everyday, and for their commitment to the wonderful students here.<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful for all of our Admissions Senior Interviewers, Tour Guides, Online Chatters, Greeters, and all of our Alumni Volunteers who help us tell the Holy Cross story and reach out to many more students than we would be able to reach alone.<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful for the applicants, some of whom will become the next generation of Holy Cross Crusaders, and the commitment each has made to their own education, school and community.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m thankful to be here, in this beautiful place called the College of the Holy Cross, and to take part in telling the story.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Richardson<\/p>\n<p>Associate Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Thanksgiving break, I was able to spend some time reflecting on all of the things that I am thankful for.\u00a0 Below I&#8217;ve listed a few, relating to Holy Cross: I am thankful for the Guidance Secretaries who worked with us to schedule our many high school visits this fall,\u00a0 and for the cooperation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/11\/30\/giving-thanks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giving Thanks&#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":[2,14],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions-staff","category-james-richardson","tag-why-holy-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}