{"id":508,"date":"2011-02-04T11:25:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu\/2011\/02\/04\/transistions\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:25:26","slug":"transistions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2011\/02\/04\/transistions\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the &#8220;snowpocalypse&#8221; was a huge let down. Instead of fifteen inches of snow, we had ice pellets. My dream of a snow day will never come to fruition, I suppose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All dramatics aside, if you&#8217;ve been to the Holy Cross website in the past day, you&#8217;ve heard the news that Fr. McFarland is stepping down from his position as President of Holy Cross. I just wanted to take a moment to thank Fr. McFarland for everything that he has done for the college in his past eleven years of service in this capacity. I have been fortunate enough to know Fr. McFarland personally (see &#8211; you should sign up to be an altar server. It&#8217;s the best way to know the administration around here!), and his intelligence, spirituality, and dedication to the liberal arts and Ignation outlook of our college have been truly inspiring. I will never forget his sermon at that Mass of the Holy Spirit my freshman year &#8211; his words made me feel comforted, that I had found a home. Indeed, I have, and he has been an integral part of making my experience at Holy Cross so formative. Thank you, Fr. McFarland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the &#8220;snowpocalypse&#8221; was a huge let down. Instead of fifteen inches of snow, we had ice pellets. My dream of a snow day will never come to fruition, I suppose&#8230; All dramatics aside, if you&#8217;ve been to the Holy Cross website in the past day, you&#8217;ve heard the news that Fr. McFarland is stepping &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2011\/02\/04\/transistions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transitions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-campus-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}