{"id":190,"date":"2013-04-11T19:20:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:14:29","slug":"the-mecca-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/the-mecca-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"The MECCA Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>check out the Engineering Library&#8217;s MECCA exhibit an Engineering celebration very popular from the 1920-1970 celebrated with parades, long beard contests, finding and kissing the Blarney stone by upper classman. \u00a0The Blarney stone imported from Ireland was lost for 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Some pictures from parades and events from political statements having to do with the war and thoughts about science with captions like &#8220;Science?&#8211;HELL NO! Mars is wet.&#8221;\u00a0 To floates that were meant to be fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0973a_Frontjpg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-202\" alt=\"ea0973a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0973a_Frontjpg1-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0973a_Frontjpg1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0973a_Frontjpg1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0982a_Frontjpg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-203\" alt=\"ea0982a_Frontjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/ea0982a_Frontjpg1-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" 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