{"id":4437,"date":"2016-10-27T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2025-08-23T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:54:33","slug":"a-party-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2016\/10\/27\/a-party-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A Party to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/10\/balloons_clip_art_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4438\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2016\/10\/balloons_clip_art_.jpg\" alt=\"balloons_clip_art_\" width=\"287\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/10\/balloons_clip_art_.jpg 287w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/10\/balloons_clip_art_-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Students who attended the first ever UMPI block party experienced a night to remember. The festivities took place on September 30. It was a cold Friday night, but that didn\u2019t keep students and residents away. The Gentile Hall parking lot was filled with people looking to have a great night.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Students who attended the block party had the chance to meet with other students they might not have met before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the block party is a great way to get to know the other students on campus,\u201d Sam Carpenter, a second-year student at UMPI, said. \u201cIt\u2019s starting to get colder, so students might not go out as much. The block party is a great way to bring everyone together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting to meet new people isn\u2019t all you had to look forward to at the block party. Student clubs as well as other vendors lined the perimeter of Gentile parking lot. There were a variety of items that people could purchase. On one end of the parking lot you could sit in a massage chair at the UMPI Outing Club booth, or on the other end you could tie-dye shirts and socks at the Student Activities booth. Along with providing tasty treats like caramel apples the booths also provided a platform for people to learn about the UMPI clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe block party gives us a chance to let people know what the clubs are doing,\u201d Suzanne Donovan, a member of the UMPI Phi ETA Sigma club, said. \u201cIt\u2019s also a good way to see what the kids are all doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No matter what your reason was for going to the UMPI block party you were guaranteed to have a blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Students who attended the first ever UMPI block party experienced a night to remember. The festivities took place on September 30. It was a cold Friday night, but that didn\u2019t keep students and residents away. The Gentile Hall parking lot was filled with people looking to have a great night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8956,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/8956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}