{"id":410,"date":"2010-07-22T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/07\/22\/last-step-before-turf\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T12:01:15","slug":"last-step-before-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/07\/22\/last-step-before-turf\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Step Before Turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i>Kyle Bender &rsquo;12<\/i> &#8211; The construction crew continues to spread gravel across the entire length of the field at Hollett Little Giant Stadium.&nbsp;It is the final step before turf installation begins next week.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>For an updated photo album, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_album_id=2450\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"156\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/FieldWorkStory722a.jpg\" \/>Media Services Specialist Adam Bowen recently installed a time-lapse camera in the press box.&nbsp;The camera will take a photo of the field every two minutes for the next few weeks of the turf installation process.&nbsp;Once the project is completed, Adam will compile the pictures into a time-lapse video to be posted on website.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>On a personal note, it is a bittersweet time for me in terms of the construction progress.&nbsp;I have reported on the project the entire summer, all the way back to the first piece of ground removed on May 19th.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>As the long-anticipated turf installation moment approaches, I will miss the most exciting part of the project as I will be out of the office all next week.&nbsp;I am headed to Phoenix, Arizona for a national fraternity conference with several Wabash students, alums, along with Spanish professor Dan Rogers.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Brent Harris and Howard Hewitt will provide coverage next week.&nbsp;While I&rsquo;ve reported and taken pictures mostly of mounds of dirt all summer, they will get to have the fun of watching the new carpet unrolled. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I have much time invested in the project so I will faithfully follow the FYI Blog updates along with the rest of the Wabash community next week!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Bender &rsquo;12 &#8211; The construction crew continues to spread gravel across the entire length of the field at Hollett Little Giant Stadium.&nbsp;It is the final step before turf installation begins next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletic-fields-construction"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}