{"id":772,"date":"2022-11-11T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/?p=772"},"modified":"2022-11-14T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:36:07","slug":"the-dome-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/2022\/11\/11\/the-dome-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dome Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2022\/11\/dome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-773 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2022\/11\/dome-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The door to the inflatable dome over Augsburg's Edor Nelson Field is attached to the deflated bubble, waiting to be set up.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2022\/11\/dome-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2022\/11\/dome-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2022\/11\/dome-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2022\/11\/dome-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2022\/11\/dome-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2022\/11\/dome.jpg 1711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Leaves are falling, birds are flying south, and it\u2019s dark by 5:15 p.m. But the surest sign of winter arrives this week: Augsburg\u2019s dome is going up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Last week, athletic facilities staff undertook the multi-day process to convert Edor Nelson Field for winter use, taking down field pads, wind screens, goal posts, and the front section of the bleachers to be stored off-site until spring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Monday, the dome will arrive in five pieces on flatbed trucks. Street parking on Butler will not be available through Monday as cranes offload the dome sections. Working with Augsburg facilities maintenance staff, installation crews from the manufacturer Yeadon will roll out each section on the field, secure the connections between them, and attach the dome doors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After three days of prep and assembly, inflation only takes about three hours. Working around snow delays, the dome should be inflated later this week and open for use by Augsburg athletic teams, local leagues, and community members the week of November 21.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaves are falling, birds are flying south, and it\u2019s dark by 5:15 p.m. But the surest sign of winter arrives this week: Augsburg\u2019s dome is going up.\u00a0 Last week, athletic facilities staff undertook the multi-day process to convert Edor Nelson Field for winter use, taking down field pads, wind screens, goal posts, and the front &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/2022\/11\/11\/the-dome-returns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dome Returns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}