{"id":8118,"date":"2022-12-16T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2022-12-16T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:24:06","slug":"mu-celebrates-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2022\/12\/16\/mu-celebrates-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"MU celebrates the season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20220514-Commencement-Medicine-SEO-0121-scaled-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi shaking hands with a graduate at commencement.\" class=\"wp-image-7906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20220514-Commencement-Medicine-SEO-0121-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20220514-Commencement-Medicine-SEO-0121-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20220514-Commencement-Medicine-SEO-0121-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20220514-Commencement-Medicine-SEO-0121-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/20220514-Commencement-Medicine-SEO-0121-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This afternoon, we begin our December commencement events. <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2022\/more-than-1900-to-receive-degrees-from-mizzou\/\">Nearly 2,000 students will graduate<\/a> over the next two days, and on Sunday we\u2019ll hold three ROTC commissioning ceremonies. Congratulations to all on their hard work and resilience. I can\u2019t wait to see what this class achieves next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also want to wish our graduates, students, faculty, staff and alumni a restful holiday season. I hope you\u2019ll join me in cheering on the many student-athletes competing during winter break, including Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Basketball teams against Illinois and Mizzou Football in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2022\/12\/4\/football-set-to-face-wake-forest-in-union-home-mortgage-gasparilla-bowl.aspx\">Gasparilla Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to celebrating even more Mizzou excellence in the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014&nbsp;Mun<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, we begin our December commencement events. Nearly 2,000 students will graduate over the next two days, and on Sunday we\u2019ll hold three ROTC commissioning ceremonies. Congratulations to all on their hard work and resilience. I can\u2019t wait to see what this class achieves next. I also want to wish our graduates, students, faculty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}