{"id":2189,"date":"2015-11-20T02:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2015-11-20T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T02:04:43","slug":"bradleys-shorter-thanksgiving-break-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/2015\/11\/20\/bradleys-shorter-thanksgiving-break-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley&#8217;s Shorter Thanksgiving Break Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/11\/Thanksgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2190 colorbox-2189\" src=\"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/11\/Thanksgiving-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Thanksgiving\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/11\/Thanksgiving-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/files\/2015\/11\/Thanksgiving-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This coming week is Thanksgiving Break.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to get some information about the reasoning behind small Thanksgiving and a Fall Break.<\/p>\n<p>We talked to Andreas Kindler, who is a Registrar Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that we have a Fall Break as a way to allow students and faculty to have a mid-semester break and have a few days off for Thanksgiving Break, instead of just one week for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>The academic calendar changed around 1971, where there was no Fall Break and Thanksgiving Break was the mid-semester break, followed up with a short two-week Winter Break.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want the full week for Thanksgiving Break, it looks like students would have to sacrifice Fall Break.<\/p>\n<p>Our semester is a 15-week semester compared to most schools which have a 16-week semester.<\/p>\n<p>The way our semester runs, there would be no room for a shorter Fall Break and a longer Thanksgiving Break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming week is Thanksgiving Break.<br \/>\nWe were able to get some information about the reasoning behind small Thanksgiving and a Fall Break.<br \/>\nWe talked to Andreas Kindler, who is a Registrar Administrator.<br \/>\nHe believes that we have a Fall Break as a way to allow students and faculty to have a mid-semester break and have a few [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}