{"id":6296,"date":"2012-11-30T11:53:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:10:00","slug":"looking-back-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=6296","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: December 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/016_16-Sharp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6297\" title=\"016_16-Sharp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/016_16-Sharp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/016_16-Sharp.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/016_16-Sharp-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the 1950s, a tradition had taken root on campus wherein each holiday season male students would travel from dorm to dorm singing Christmas carols. From what we can ascertain, the tradition seems to have continued until at least the 1970s. We\u2019re not sure when this photo, which was culled from the College\u2019s archives, was taken, but it looks to be at some point within that time frame. If you\u2019re among the \u201cmerry gentlemen\u201d pictured here or know someone who is, or even if you just have a tale you\u2019d like to share about holidays past on campus, we\u2019d love to hear from you. Write us at magazine@tcnj.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> If you\u2019re among the \u201cmerry gentlemen\u201d pictured here or know someone who is, or even if you just have a tale you\u2019d like to share about holidays past on campus, we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-corner","category-december-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}