{"id":220,"date":"2008-05-15T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/victoria-graduation-parade\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:51","slug":"victoria-graduation-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/victoria-graduation-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Graduation Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, I won&#8217;t be here anymore for my own chance of a fancy graduation ceremony with cap and gown, so yesterday I went to have a look at the parade of the graduates from the Humanities, Law and Commerce (my department &#8211; with orange stoles) faculties. Quite a big thing, with bagpipes and an assembly on the Civic Centre square.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2495858332\/\" title=\"Victoria Graduation Parade by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2138\/2495858332_fe1240df59_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Victoria Graduation Parade\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2495035635\/\" title=\"Victoria Graduation Parade by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2385\/2495035635_7147165d26_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Victoria Graduation Parade\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2495859342\/\" title=\"Victoria Graduation Parade by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3040\/2495859342_80d6c47bec_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Victoria Graduation Parade\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2495860008\/\" title=\"Victoria Graduation Parade by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3175\/2495860008_8ef08a3017_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Victoria Graduation Parade\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a gorgeous day, btw, so I went by my favorite spot on the waterfront (sadly, the caf\u00e9 there seems to have closed for winter). I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve mentioned it before, but there are Wellington-related quotes all along the waterfront, on plaques and benches. I took a picture of one of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2495860566\/\" title=\"Wellington waterfront by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2111\/2495860566_2c4a9861b5_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Wellington waterfront\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s true you can&#8217;t live here by chance, you have to do and be, not simply watch or even describe. This is the city of action, the world headquarters of the verb. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Prof02\/Lauris_Edmond\" target=\"new\">Lauris Edmond<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news: <strong>Happy birthday, Fr\u00e4nzi!<\/strong> Hope it&#8217;s a good one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, I won&#8217;t be here anymore for my own chance of a fancy graduation ceremony with cap and gown, so yesterday I went to have a look at the parade of the graduates from the Humanities, Law and Commerce (my department &#8211; with orange stoles) faculties. Quite a big thing, with bagpipes and an assembly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/victoria-graduation-parade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Victoria Graduation Parade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-nz","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}