{"id":1540,"date":"2010-02-23T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2010-02-23T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:48:41","slug":"snow-sculptures-beat-the-winter-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/02\/snow-sculptures-beat-the-winter-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow sculptures beat the winter blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1539\" title=\"snowzone\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snowzone.jpg\" alt=\"snowzone\" width=\"518\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Artisans have lent some seasonal cheer to the Walker Courtyard by building a small population of snowmen.<\/p>\n<p>Four snow figures were built Tuesday morning by four Education students on a break from class. One figure is perched atop a rock pile, while another, about six feet tall, looks in on The Zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a break and decided that rather than do more work, we\u2019d create some comic relief,\u201d said Education student Richard Borger, who did the decorating with Jasper Schouten, Katie Dubois and Lisa Mooney.<\/p>\n<p>The Weather Network is forecasting heavy snowfall for St. Catharines this week, with five to 10 cm predicted for Thursday and 10 to 15 cm Friday.<\/p>\n<p>To check out the local weather forecast at any time, click the Weather Network button at the top of every <em>Brock News<\/em> page.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1541\" title=\"snow2\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snow2.jpg\" alt=\"snow2\" width=\"518\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1542\" title=\"snow1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snow1.jpg\" alt=\"snow1\" width=\"518\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As winter comes in full force, snow men are popping up around campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}