{"id":3818,"date":"2025-03-18T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:50:18","slug":"spring-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2025\/03\/spring-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the winter transitions to spring, the snow (or rather, ice) on Reed campus is replaced with cherry blossom petals. The trees all blossom in an array of pinks and whites, and the students flock to the great lawn to enjoy the sunlight they so seldom see.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trees in Eliot Circle were planted in 1973, and they are at the fullest time of their long lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you can\u2019t make it to campus to view for yourself, here are some of my favorite photos from spring at Reed! Photo credit to Oscar Pulliam &#8217;25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" data-id=\"3820\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/6O7A1617-1024x660.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of the cherry trees in Eliot Circle\" class=\"wp-image-3820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/6O7A1617-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/6O7A1617-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/6O7A1617-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/6O7A1617-1536x990.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/6O7A1617-2048x1320.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" data-id=\"3822\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/2020-laurels-096-9077-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of the trees on the great lawn blossoming\" class=\"wp-image-3822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/2020-laurels-096-9077-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/2020-laurels-096-9077-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/2020-laurels-096-9077-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/2020-laurels-096-9077-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/2020-laurels-096-9077-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"3819\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring-93-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of the cherry trees in Eliot Circle\" class=\"wp-image-3819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring-93-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring-93-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring-93-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring-93-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring-93-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" data-id=\"3821\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring2021-79-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of the cherry trees in Eliot Circle\" class=\"wp-image-3821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring2021-79-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring2021-79-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring2021-79-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring2021-79-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/01\/spring2021-79-2048x1379.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craving vitamin D,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taliah Churchill &#8217;25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the winter transitions to spring, the snow (or rather, ice) on Reed campus is replaced with cherry blossom petals. The trees all blossom in an array of pinks and whites, and the students flock to the great lawn to enjoy the sunlight they so seldom see.\u00a0 The trees in Eliot Circle were planted in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2025\/03\/spring-on-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring on Campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,189],"tags":[175,206,176],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","category-photography","tag-campus","tag-cherry-blossoms","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}