{"id":1881,"date":"2015-06-10T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2015-06-10T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:54:45","slug":"lsi-berkeley-celebrates-memorial-day-with-an-american-bar-b-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/2015\/06\/lsi-berkeley-celebrates-memorial-day-with-an-american-bar-b-q\/","title":{"rendered":"LSI Berkeley Celebrates Memorial Day with an American Bar-B-Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the US,\u00a0we\u00a0celebrate Memorial Day on the fourth Monday of\u00a0 May\u00a0to honour the memory of soldiers lost or wounded in war.\u00a0For many Americans the Memorial Day Weekend also \u00a0marks the unofficial start of\u00a0 summer. The celebrations entail\u00a0a weekend of parades, pool parties, and Bar-B-Q\u2019s. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/english\/united-states\/san-franciscoberkeley\/school\">LSI Berkeley<\/a>, we thought we\u2019d celebrate the occasion with a Bar-B-Q of our own.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1882\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MemorialDay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1882\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MemorialDay1.jpg\" alt=\"In amongst the Redwoods - LSI Berkeley Students\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MemorialDay1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MemorialDay1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MemorialDay1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In amongst the Redwoods &#8211; LSI Berkeley Students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s\u00a0rare we manage to\u00a0organise an activity which galvanises the\u00a0whole school but\u00a0our Bar-B-Q turned out to be a\u00a0resounding success with all our students.\u00a0 As with most things at LSI, the event was a great mix of cultures.\u00a0 Whilst our student services coordinator, Ava, took charge of grilling\u00a0all\u00a0-American favourites such as hot dogs and hamburgers, there were also contributions from across the globe including some\u00a0tasty\u00a0Libyan steaks, and\u00a0 a Quebecois delicacy -Poutine, a heart-stopping combination of French fries, gravy, and melted cheese.\u00a0 Few things say summer more than Frisbee, warm sun, and fresh food on a grill.\u00a0 We\u2019re happy to report that summer here in Berkeley is off to a great start!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BBQatBerkeley.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1885\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BBQatBerkeley.png\" alt=\"BBQatBerkeley\" width=\"450\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BBQatBerkeley.png 450w, https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BBQatBerkeley-300x109.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US,\u00a0we\u00a0celebrate Memorial Day on the fourth Monday of\u00a0 May\u00a0to honour the memory of soldiers lost or wounded in&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lsi-news","tag-lsi-berkeley","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}