{"id":248,"date":"2023-12-07T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/?p=248"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T23:01:41","slug":"celebrating-the-season-with-community-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/2023\/12\/07\/celebrating-the-season-with-community-flare\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the season with community flare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Liberal Arts &amp; Education, soon to be the College of Humanities, Arts &amp; Social Sciences, continued its annual holiday celebration tradition for the College community. The pot-luck-style fare celebrated the diversity of foods and traditions of faculty and staff. The celebration included a performance by the University choir, the guitar and song stylings of Greg Sumner, professor of History, and Marty Leever, professor of Philosophy, a reading by Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall, and a video animation by Jason Roche, associate professor of Communication Studies, that featured the voices of eleven faculty and staff. Special thank you to Dean&#8217;s Office staff Delanda Dixon, Lezly Pruitt, Angela Davis and Valerie Williams for their time and talent in creating such a festive event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rh8vwwrAWUU?si=skx6gr-vJkf5vvuV\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-251 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2023\/12\/video-screenshot.png?resize=1217%2C610&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thumbnail of scene from CHASS Celebrates the Season featuring an animated version of Dean Jocelyn.\" width=\"1217\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2023\/12\/video-screenshot.png?w=1479&amp;ssl=1 1479w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2023\/12\/video-screenshot.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2023\/12\/video-screenshot.png?resize=1024%2C513&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2023\/12\/video-screenshot.png?resize=768%2C385&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2023\/12\/video-screenshot.png?resize=699%2C350&amp;ssl=1 699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1217px) 100vw, 1217px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the animated video<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rh8vwwrAWUU?si=skx6gr-vJkf5vvuV\">CHASS Celebrates the Season<\/a><\/em> featuring with voice talent of faculty and staff. Written,&nbsp; directed and created by Associate Professor of Communication Studies Jason Roche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Liberal Arts &amp; Education, soon to be the College of Humanities, Arts &amp; Social Sciences, continued its annual holiday celebration tradition for the College community. The pot-luck-style fare celebrated the diversity of foods and traditions of faculty and staff. The celebration included a performance by the University &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[17,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/530\/2023\/12\/Red-and-White-Happy-Holidays-Typography-Instagram-Post.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/magis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}