{"id":3942,"date":"2015-09-21T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:04","slug":"missouri-western-celebrates-founders-and-family-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/09\/21\/missouri-western-celebrates-founders-and-family-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Western Celebrates Founders&#8217; and Family Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/09\/Maria-the-Mexican.jpg\"><\/a>Missouri Western State University will continue its Centennial Celebration with a Founders\u2019 and Family Day Celebration featuring food, fun, music and more from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, prior to the Griffon football game against Lindenwood. The pre-game celebration is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Activities include a mega-tailgate in Lot H with carnival games, inflatables and entertainment from local bands Soca Jukebox and Maria the Mexican. Fans can bring their own tailgate, or food will be available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The Bushman Planetarium in Agenstein Hall will also be offering free shows at noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Griffon football team will take on Lindenwood at 2 p.m. on Craig Field at Spratt Memorial Stadium. Game tickets may be purchased at the gate or in advance at gogriffons.com.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Founders\u2019 and Family Day, call 816-271-5646 or 816-271-4150.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/09\/Soca-Jukebox.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western State University will continue its Centennial Celebration with a Founders\u2019 and Family Day Celebration featuring food, fun, music and more from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, prior to the Griffon football game against Lindenwood. The pre-game celebration is free and open to the public. Activities include a mega-tailgate in Lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[203,360,382,406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8084,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}