{"id":2363,"date":"2018-05-01T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:20:01","slug":"why-can-the-university-afford-to-plant-new-grass-each-year-but-cant-pay-for-more-space-for-the-orchestra-chamber-music-programs-to-practice-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/01\/why-can-the-university-afford-to-plant-new-grass-each-year-but-cant-pay-for-more-space-for-the-orchestra-chamber-music-programs-to-practice-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can the university afford to plant new grass each year but can&#8217;t pay for more space for the orchestra &#038; chamber music programs to practice in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2362\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05012018-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2362\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05012018-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Why can the university afford to plant new grass each year but can't pay for more space for the orchestra &amp; chamber music programs to practice in?\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05012018-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05012018-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05012018-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05012018-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why can the university afford to plant new grass each year but can&#8217;t pay for more space for the orchestra &amp; chamber music programs to practice in?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The grass is grown on a sod farm just for Boston College; this contract gives BC a good price break. Buildings and building spaces are much more expensive and require lots of planning and then ongoing maintenance. That said, I have heard that BC is looking very closely at existing spaces that would be suitable for practice, performance and collaborative study. I think the answer to your question is that BC can afford both grass and student spaces- we just need to see what their final plans are for student spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grass is grown on a sod farm just for Boston College; this contract gives BC a good price break. Buildings and building spaces are much more expensive and require lots of planning and then ongoing maintenance. That said, I have heard that BC is looking very closely at existing spaces that would be suitable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/01\/why-can-the-university-afford-to-plant-new-grass-each-year-but-cant-pay-for-more-space-for-the-orchestra-chamber-music-programs-to-practice-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why can the university afford to plant new grass each year but can&#8217;t pay for more space for the orchestra &#038; chamber music programs to practice in?&#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":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}