{"id":750,"date":"2011-03-01T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/?p=750"},"modified":"2011-10-15T01:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T01:00:23","slug":"form-plaque-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/750","title":{"rendered":"Form Plaque: 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is of the Form plaque carving for 1862 on display in the Coit Upper Dining Hall that was completed by woodcarver John Gregory Wiggins sometime between November of 1922 and May of 1923.<\/p>\n<p>The following description of the design was written by Wiggins in the June 7, 1923 edition of the <em>Horae Scholasticae<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lower half of the shield shows the famous encounter between the Monitor and the Merrimac.\u00a0 In the corners are forts, suggesting the taking of Forts Henry and Donelson.\u00a0 In the top center is a bunch of oak leaves &#8211; the Battle of Fair Oaks.\u00a0 In the upper left is foot-ball, which was played quite a bit that fall; and upper right shows &#8220;Shinny on the ice,&#8221; the first sign of life in &#8220;The Cradle of Hockey.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/1438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1457 alignleft\" title=\"olda_000059_w\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/olda_000059_w-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/olda_000059_w-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/olda_000059_w-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Click the thumbnail on the left to see the original concept drawing  created by Wiggins as part of the design process for this carving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is of the Form plaque carving for 1862 on display in the Coit Upper Dining Hall that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[300],"tags":[319,322,304,326,819,324,323,496,327,320],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/olda_000029.04_w.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}