{"id":31719,"date":"2017-09-04T08:14:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=31719"},"modified":"2017-09-04T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:20:56","slug":"a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2017\/09\/04\/a-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Commencement Day at NMH.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A new year starts at Northfield Mount Hermon school, where my son returns as a sophomore.  Set in the bucolic Berkshire Hills of central Massachusetts, some 2 hours from Boston, the school&#8217;s 1500 acre campus exemplifies all that is good about New England schooling &#8211; a gorgeous campus, outstanding faculty and administration and a caring and nurturing spirit.  Academic standards, along with those in the seven other Ivy League New England prep schools*, are <i>ne plus ultra<\/i>.  The matriculation rate to university is 100% for all these schools, reflecting early and aggressive culling of sub-par performers.  Winston couldn&#8217;t wait to return.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/NMH_2017_1.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"764\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>A perfect azure sky is backdrop for the welcome tent, early morning.  The Memorial Chapel, built from local Connecticut River stone, is at top left.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/NMH_2017_2.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"764\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Winston registers for the sophomore year in the Forslund Gym.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/NMH_2017_4.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"764\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The Gym sports two basketball courts, here covered for the registration process.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/NMH_2017_3.jpg\" width=\"764\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Blake Hall is the student center.  Last year my son&#8217;s  work-job duties included cleaning it!  All students are required to participate in manual labor tasks.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>* Hotchkiss, Andover, Deerfield, Exeter, St. Paul&#8217;s, Lawrenceville, Choate and NMH.<\/p>\n<p>All snapped on the iPhone 6 which always does a number on azure skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commencement Day at NMH. A new year starts at Northfield Mount Hermon school, where my son returns as a sophomore. Set in the bucolic Berkshire Hills of central Massachusetts, some 2 hours from Boston, the school&#8217;s 1500 acre campus exemplifies all that is good about New England schooling &#8211; a gorgeous campus, outstanding faculty and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2017\/09\/04\/a-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31723,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31719\/revisions\/31723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}