{"id":210,"date":"2015-09-03T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/?p=210"},"modified":"2020-04-19T01:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:07:43","slug":"2014-lloyd-christmas-tree-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"2014 Lloyd Christmas Tree Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Lloyd Christmas tree went up as usual, and it got pranked &#8211; as usual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The frosh class built a replica of the Lloyd gong, and set up a string of net lights down Millikan. It was rigged such that when the gong was hit, the lights would light up to reflect how hard you hit the gong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/14605_10204424933397738_2082689246584419188_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-213 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/14605_10204424933397738_2082689246584419188_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"overall_view\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-215 aligncenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10608392_10204424950958177_1646964275561622681_o-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"A hit!\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The tallest light was set not to go off unless you pressed a hidden button, allowing the frosh (and others in the loop) to impress people with their strength.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #41a62a; outline: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10827906_10204424953078230_4032345854990159375_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10827906_10204424953078230_4032345854990159375_o-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"The score\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Lloyd Christmas tree went up as usual, and it got pranked &#8211; as usual. The frosh class built a replica of the Lloyd gong, and set up a string of net lights down Millikan. It was rigged such that when the gong was hit, the lights would light up to reflect how hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,27,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}