{"id":296,"date":"2017-01-18T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/sock\/?p=296"},"modified":"2017-01-18T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:47:55","slug":"welcome-to-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/2017\/01\/18\/welcome-to-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! Welcome to 2017 and a new semester.<\/p>\n<p>On <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday, January 20th<\/span><\/span>, we will have our first community speakers of the the semester. We&#8217;ve got a lot of announcements and important information to cover to get this semester on the road, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Announcing the winner of the Fall VIP Series competition, and awarding the $250 prize<\/li>\n<li>Getting everyone pumped (optically, of course) for Laser Fun Day, which will be on <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">March 25th<\/span><\/span> this year!<\/li>\n<li>Showcasing plans for the major spring events, like our camping trip, the State of the College Address with Dean Koch, and other social and academic activities<\/li>\n<li>Giving updates on our grants awarded from SPIE and OSA, and the cool new projects that they enable us to do that we need your help with<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the wait is over, they&#8217;ve arrived&#8230;&#8230;. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">SOCk socks are here!<\/span> Many of you ordered them a while back, and they&#8217;ve finally come. For those of you who paid already (we have a list of your names), we&#8217;ll be distributing them. We have a limited number of additional SOCk socks, so come and get them while you can!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks everyone! I hope to see you <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span> at <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">noon<\/span><\/span> in 410\/408.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Cromey<br \/>\nSOCk President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! Welcome to 2017 and a new semester. On Friday, January 20th, we will have our first community speakers of the the semester. We&#8217;ve got a lot of announcements and important information to cover to get this semester on the road, including: Announcing the winner of the Fall VIP Series competition, and awarding the $250 prize Getting everyone pumped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/sock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}