{"id":6910,"date":"2016-05-15T18:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T00:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2016-05-15T19:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T01:14:35","slug":"pomp-circumstance-university-of-wisconsin-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6910","title":{"rendered":"Pomp &#038; Circumstance: University of Wisconsin Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few images on a rather cold May Saturday. That said, I thought the program was interesting (particularly some of the student remarks) and timely for observers, parents, students and staff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0045b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0051b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0055b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0069b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0070b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0076b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0081b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0117b.jpg\" title=\"Russell Wilson Commencement Speech at the University of Wisconsin Madison\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0156b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0169b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0235b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0247b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0259b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0264b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0288b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it did <em>hail<\/em> briefly during Russell Wilson&#8217;s remarkable <a href=\"http:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/russell-wilson-2016-commencement-speech-when-life-tells-you-no\/\">remarks<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0292b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0300b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0356b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0357b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0365b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/DSC_0368b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Rebecca Blank leads the procession as the 2016 Spring Commencement draws to a close.  Blank&#8217;s remarks were worthwhile, if not inspirational.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/uwgrad16.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/uwgrad16t.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/uw_grad2016a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/05\/uw_grad2016at.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tap on the last two images to view much larger scenes. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commencement.wisc.edu\/\">commencement.wisc.edu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/uwgrad?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^hashtag\">#uwgrad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/166749396\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few images on a rather cold May Saturday. That said, I thought the program was interesting (particularly some of the student remarks) and timely for observers, parents, students and staff. Yes, it did hail briefly during Russell Wilson&#8217;s remarkable remarks. Chancellor Rebecca Blank leads the procession as the 2016 Spring Commencement draws to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}