{"id":176438,"date":"2021-08-27T14:34:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=176438"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:59:56","slug":"welcome-home-huskies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/08\/welcome-home-huskies-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home, Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a title=\"Copy link to article\" data-link=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=176438&amp;preview=true&amp;preview_id=176438\"> Copy Link <\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>For the newly arrived members of the class of 2025, what&#8217;s so &#8220;unprecedented,&#8221; to use an over-familiar word, is that everything feels so \u2026 normal.<\/p>\r\n<p>Yes, there are facemasks and hand sanitizer and everyone has taken the UConn Promise to keep each other safe and healthy, but on a hot late summer day, with a line of cars snaking down Route 195 and parents smiling through happy tears and brand-new Huskies setting into their new home, this could be 2019 or 1996 or 1974, or any year before we heard the terms &#8220;socially distant&#8221; or &#8220;flatten the curve.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>And while the final page of this defining chapter has yet to be written, today is a sign that &#8220;normal&#8221; isn&#8217;t so far away. In these pictures by UConn photographers Peter Morenus and Sean Flynn, we see the full range of move-in weekend emotions familiar to Huskies of every generation: the excitement, the nerves, the pride, the curiosity, and the determination to experience everything life at a great university has to offer.<\/p>\r\n<p>Welcome back, UConn. We missed you.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move-in Weekend got underway today, as first-year students began moving into the residence halls <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":176549,"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":[69,2235,2227,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2162],"class_list":["post-176438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-edu-homepage","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 03:44:30","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\/176438","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\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176438"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176611,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176438\/revisions\/176611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/176549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176438"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=176438"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=176438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}