{"id":152410,"date":"2018-08-08T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=152410"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:04:34","slug":"taking-page-swing-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/08\/taking-page-swing-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Page from the Swing Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2010, two wooden swings appeared on a Dahurian birch tree next to Mirror Lake and quickly became a favorite gathering spot for students. It was also a great spot to self-reflect, and a few years later Elizabeth Cracco, director of Counseling and Mental Health Services, placed a blank composition book near the tree to give students an outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The University later erected a post and mailbox to house the journal within easy reach of the wooden swings, one of which is carved with the words \u201cBe Happy\u201d and the other declaring, \u201cYou\u2019re Awesome.\u201d Over the years, students and visitors alike have filled dozens of \u201cswing journals\u201d with mostly anonymous contemplations, words of encouragement, jokes, stories, and confessions.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cswing tree\u201d recently reached <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/05\/dozens-seedlings-thriving-iconic-swing-tree-descendants\/\">the end of its natural life<\/a>, became sick, and had to be cut down. But before that, the UConn 360 podcast told the story of the swing journal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to the podcast:<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-152410-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Swing-Journal.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Swing-Journal.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Swing-Journal.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmagazine.uconn.edu%2F2018%2F02%2F09%2Fa-little-push%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Celizabeth.omara-otunnu%40uconn.edu%7C945fdd86b99b4748f60a08d6fbff2fec%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636973470907446318&amp;sdata=4b0sDaWOpIPm7bRo9ovQBEFpSaYov89uIvfQGdfJ8Zk%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>Read more at UConn Magazine.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For full episodes of the UConn 360 podcast, visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast\"><em>uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, students and visitors alike have filled dozens of \u201cswing journals\u201d with mostly anonymous contemplations, words of encouragement, jokes, stories, and confessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":152502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2141,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1929],"class_list":["post-152410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","series-heard-here-uconn-360"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 05:34:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152504,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152410\/revisions\/152504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/152502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152410"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=152410"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=152410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}