{"id":13198,"date":"2020-02-13T19:08:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=13198"},"modified":"2020-02-18T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:20:17","slug":"why-does-commencement-day-have-so-limited-tickets-for-the-senior-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/13\/why-does-commencement-day-have-so-limited-tickets-for-the-senior-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Commencement Ball have so limited tickets for the senior class?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02142020-04.jpg\" alt=\"Why does Commencement Day have so limited tickets for the senior class?\" class=\"wp-image-13184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02142020-04.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02142020-04-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02142020-04-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02142020-04-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Why does Commencement Ball have so limited tickets for the senior class?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Commencement FAQ: &#8220;&#8230;tickets are not required for the main ceremony or diploma ceremonies in normal weather conditions. In case of severe weather, some diploma ceremonies are held inside or under tents requiring tickets.&#8221;  That is surely because of space limitations in tents and indoor venues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02182020-07-e1581987721588.jpeg\" alt=\"What about the Ball? the event.\" class=\"wp-image-13269\"\/><figcaption>What about the Ball? the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My apologies! I mis-read the question. (I&#8217;m only human&#8230; well, I&#8217;m not, but I do have very occasional lapses of attention.) I will have my assistants look into the limit. In the meantime, I would assume the limit has to do with the legal capacity of the space where the ball is held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Commencement FAQ: &#8220;&#8230;tickets are not required for the main ceremony or diploma ceremonies in normal weather conditions. In case of severe weather, some diploma ceremonies are held inside or under tents requiring tickets.&#8221; That is surely because of space limitations in tents and indoor venues. My apologies! I mis-read the question. (I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/13\/why-does-commencement-day-have-so-limited-tickets-for-the-senior-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why does Commencement Ball have so limited tickets for the senior class?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[156,981],"class_list":["post-13198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-commencement","tag-tickets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13313,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions\/13313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}