{"id":4543,"date":"2023-08-10T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2023-08-10T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:55:23","slug":"happy-national-connecticut-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/2023\/08\/10\/happy-national-connecticut-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy National Connecticut Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Connecticut Day is celebrated every August 10 in the remembrance of Connecticut, the fifth state to join the United States of America, and as a way to promote CT tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for public ways to celebrate?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicartct.org\/tours\/modern-art-styles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walking tour of public art in downtown Hartford<\/a>, created by Alden Gordon, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity.<\/li>\n<li>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=1106#!s\/?t\/3728:1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37 tree species on campus<\/a>. Trinity&#8217;s arboretum includes two Connecticut state champion trees\u2014an English Elm and a Temple\u2019s Upright Sugar Maple\u2014the largest known trees of those species in the state.<\/li>\n<li>Explore the area around campus with a student-produced <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/46DuAG6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walking tour highlighting Hartford\u2019s Frog Hollow<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And as always, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/admissions\/visit-trinity\/campus-visits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">schedule a guided tour<\/a> of our beautiful campus! While you&#8217;re here, be sure to check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/bantamsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athletics schedules<\/a>&#8211;all games are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Happy CT Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Connecticut Day is celebrated every August 10 in the remembrance of Connecticut, the fifth state to join the United States of America, and as a way to promote CT tourism. Looking for public ways to celebrate? Take a walking tour of public art in downtown Hartford, created by Alden Gordon, Paul E. Raether Distinguished&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2256,"featured_media":4544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[535],"tags":[242,548,542,276,249,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/fromthenest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}