{"id":476,"date":"2011-08-19T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/?p=476"},"modified":"2012-03-05T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T22:00:28","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/2011\/08\/19\/did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-487\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-487\" title=\"Did You Know\" src=\"\/parentmagazine\/files\/2011\/08\/DidYouKnow3.jpg\" alt=\"Did You Know\" width=\"570\" height=\"393\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Vernon Doucette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Touching up signs<\/strong> and staging at Boston University\u2019s Commencement takes 40 gallons of red paint. Plus, behind the scenes, 6,000 feet of duct tape are used, 10,000 hats are handed out to guests as sunshades, and 11,496 French pastries are served. Finally, as part of the University\u2019s effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle, more than 108,000 half-liter plastic bottles are recycled to make 4,300 caps and gowns. \u25a0<\/p>\n<h3>Watch a time-lapsed video of Commencement set-up<\/h3>\n<p><object id=\"buniverseplayer\" width=\"550\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/swf\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/swf\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"viralbu.videoid=1fjKx0Cv&amp;viralbu.loc=3\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For more coverage of the 2011 Commencement, <a title=\"BU Today Commencement 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/commencement\/2011\">visit <em>BU Today<\/em><\/a>.<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Video edited by Robin Berghaus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touching up signs and staging at Boston University\u2019s Commencement takes 40 gallons of red paint. Plus, behind the scenes, 6,000 feet of duct tape are used, 10,000 hats are handed out to guests as sunshades, and 11,496 French pastries are served. Finally, as part of the University\u2019s effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle, more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8810],"tags":[1231,8967,4285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}