{"id":172,"date":"2016-03-21T03:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T03:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/?p=172"},"modified":"2016-03-21T03:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T03:20:42","slug":"the-towers-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/2016\/03\/21\/the-towers-glow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tower&#8217;s Glow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was leaving the PCL (The Perry-Casta\u00f1eda Library located on campus) roughly around 3:30 one morning. Having consumed copious amounts of caffeine, I was feeling defeated by the exam that was approaching in only a few hours. As I walked slowly back to my house attempting to replay the information I had just reviewed in my head over and over again, I looked up to see an inspiring sight\u2014the Tower, the center point of The University of Texas at Austin, glowing in an orange light which serves as a symbol of accomplishment (an athletic victory, a graduation ceremony, or things alike). In that moment, I realized the point of slaving away in the library until 3:30 in the morning; I AM a part of the Tower glowing orange with victory.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-173\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/03\/2012060901-Orange-Tower-with-1-The-University-of-Texas-Austin-Texas-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"The Tower lit orange with a number 1 to commemorate the 2012 golf national championship at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.\" width=\"522\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/03\/2012060901-Orange-Tower-with-1-The-University-of-Texas-Austin-Texas-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/03\/2012060901-Orange-Tower-with-1-The-University-of-Texas-Austin-Texas-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/03\/2012060901-Orange-Tower-with-1-The-University-of-Texas-Austin-Texas-676x405.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/03\/2012060901-Orange-Tower-with-1-The-University-of-Texas-Austin-Texas.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>photo credit:\u00a0http:\/\/www.universityoftexasimages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2012060901-Orange-Tower-with-1-The-University-of-Texas-Austin-Texas.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was leaving the PCL (The Perry-Casta\u00f1eda Library located on campus) roughly around 3:30 one morning. Having consumed copious amounts of caffeine, I was feeling defeated by the exam that was approaching in only a few hours. As I walked slowly back to my house attempting to replay the information I had just reviewed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/lifeinaustin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}