{"id":4740,"date":"2020-08-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:56:23","slug":"a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2020\/08\/07\/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"581\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/image0-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/image0-2-1.jpg 581w, https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/image0-2-1-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To express her love of Colgate, Georgia Carey \u201921 created this illustration in March after the spring semester ended early. The economics major and art minor had been studying abroad in Sydney, Australia, but had to return to her hometown of San Rafael, Calif. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy best friend, Lexi Clegg \u201921, and I were talking about how much we missed school,\u201d Carey explains. During her senior year of high school, Carey had done a similar drawing of the Golden Gate Bridge, representing her home state. \u201cIt was a powerful symbol to me,\u201d she says. \u201cAfter speaking with my friend, I realized Colgate is my second home, so I wanted to commemorate it as well \u2014 especially in this hard time and with the Class of 2020\u2019s graduation approaching.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using paint pens, Carey created the artwork out of words such as \u201cchapel,\u201d \u201ctree,\u201d and \u201csky.\u201d Written in the sky is the message \u201cbest place on earth\u201d \u2014 \u201cbecause that is most certainly what Colgate is,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carey\u2019s first memory of the chapel: During first-year orientation, when all the new students gathered, \u201cthe person next to us had to make a fist, and we had to try and break that fist,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI am still friends with the person whose fist I couldn\u2019t even break!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Carey \u201921 created an illustration of Memorial Chapel to demonstrate her love of Colgate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":4613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[37],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-voices","tag-art"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-1es","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/image0-2-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}