{"id":6691,"date":"2017-05-26T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2017-06-05T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:08:42","slug":"hat-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/2017\/05\/26\/hat-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hat Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sending messages of thanks, inspiration, commitment\u2014via mortarboard<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/federal\/files\/2017\/06\/h_butoday_17-1269-CMCTDP-367-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"h_butoday_17-1269-CMCTDP-367\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/files\/2017\/06\/h_butoday_17-1269-CMCTDP-367-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/files\/2017\/06\/h_butoday_17-1269-CMCTDP-367-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/files\/2017\/06\/h_butoday_17-1269-CMCTDP-367.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><em>Photo above by Derek Palmer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mortarboards have become the equivalent of a Hallmark card: a way to convey a heartfelt message, deliver a pointed punch line, offer a word or two of inspiration\u2014or get a belly laugh.<\/p>\n<p>In what has become an annual tradition, BU Photography sent staffers and freelancers across Nickerson Field during Sunday\u2019s 144th all-University Commencement to snap some of the year\u2019s most memorable caps. They ranged from a 3-D diorama featuring a dinosaur to mortarboards with political statements: \u201cDivest\u201d reads one, \u201cThe Future Is Female\u201d reads another. Not surprisingly, many were an homage to the parents who made these BU grads\u2019 college careers possible. Take a look at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2017\/mortarboards-2017\/\">slideshow<\/a><\/strong> to\u00a0<span>see how members of the Class of 2017 expressed a range of sentiments and colorful, creative designs with their mortarboards at Commencement 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>View more images of mortarboards decorated by BU students\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/bugradcap\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by BU Today\u00a0staff and photos by BU Photography.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sending messages of thanks, inspiration, commitment\u2014via mortarboard Photo above by Derek Palmer. Mortarboards have become the equivalent of a Hallmark card: a way to convey a heartfelt message, deliver a pointed punch line, offer a word or two of inspiration\u2014or get a belly laugh. In what has become an annual tradition, BU Photography sent staffers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[236,291,13,39,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6696,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions\/6696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}