{"id":7526,"date":"2023-01-26T18:08:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2023-01-26T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:08:54","slug":"polishing-the-ice-or-building-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/polishing-the-ice-or-building-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Polishing the ice or building character?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Purdue student or have any friends\/family members that attended Purdue, you&#8217;ve probably heard that they don&#8217;t clear the snow here, but instead just polish the ice. I&#8217;m currently in my third year here at Purdue and during my time I&#8217;ve seen my fair share of winter weather and polished sidewalks. I&#8217;ve strayed away from the idea that they might just be doing a poor job, but instead this is a way to help build character. By creating a slick surface, we as students learn time management skills by leaving earlier, because we know we will have to walk slower to prevent the inevitable encounter with Winter&#8217;s slip and slide. We improve our eyesight and balance when battling these harmless blocks of H2O. These polished sidewalks don&#8217;t make life difficult; they help build us up for the rest of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a Purdue student or have any friends\/family members that attended Purdue, you&#8217;ve probably heard that they don&#8217;t clear the snow here, but instead just polish the ice. I&#8217;m currently in my third year here at Purdue and during my time I&#8217;ve seen my fair share of winter weather and polished sidewalks. I&#8217;ve strayed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7529,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}