{"id":604,"date":"2021-07-27T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/?p=604"},"modified":"2021-08-09T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T14:25:37","slug":"graduation-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/2021\/07\/27\/graduation-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well graduation was proving to be a bit of a damp squid tbh &#8211; but that changed when I met up with Freya (forgot to take a pic &#8211; but colleague Julia got one) and Toby (remembered to take a pic, but with no thought to a beautiful background of arches or statues &#8211; oh well, who doesn&#8217;t love a red pillar box?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freya (Agriculture) and Toby (Environmental Science) have both been amazing inspirations and a strong overcomers to get to where they are and it has been such a privilege to share their journeys and I&#8217;m so pleased I got to see them at their graduations. Toby is off to Northumbrian Water and Freya to Velcourt to start the next part of their lives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/07\/Toby-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/07\/Toby-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/07\/Toby-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/07\/Toby-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/07\/Toby-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/07\/Toby-2-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/07\/Toby-2.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/08\/image.png 989w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/08\/image-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/08\/image-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/08\/image-449x300.png 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><figcaption>here is Freya winning this years best Agric student &#8211; with Lynn who won it last year at the Great Yorkshire  Show, with another inspirational, influential promoter of sustainable agricultural systems, my colleague and  friend and SoilSister, Dr Julia Cooper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well graduation was proving to be a bit of a damp squid tbh &#8211; but that changed when I met up with Freya (forgot to take a pic &#8211; but colleague Julia got one) and Toby (remembered to take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/2021\/07\/27\/graduation-this-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}