{"id":9156,"date":"2019-08-23T09:46:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2019-08-23T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:46:47","slug":"newspress-now-western-hosts-griff-up-downtown-event-for-college-freshmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/23\/newspress-now-western-hosts-griff-up-downtown-event-for-college-freshmen\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsPress NOW: Western hosts Griff Up Downtown event for college freshmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-98125322-8263-11e9-a93d-c385ebb1beca-asset-4c6729e8-c4d5-11e9-a9b0-e74dd62ff8d5\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover887568\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/9\/35\/9353424e-c537-11e9-a121-4fc87cd3d7c9\/5d5f2a31af2e0.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800\" alt=\"Griff Up Downtown welcomed the Class of 2023 to Coleman Hawkins Park\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/>By Bailey Ketcham News-Press NOW|<\/span>Aug 22, 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>For the first time 大象传媒 hosted the Griff Up downtown event to welcome the class of 2023 to St. Joseph.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>The event took place at Coleman Hawkins Park at Felix Street Square in order to get student acquainted with a new area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>There was music, games, face painting, free shirts and 16 different businesses offering special promotions for the night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Students also had a chance to explore local businesses through a scavenger hunt across Downtown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Mayor Bill McMurray and Western President Matt Wilson were at the event to meet incoming students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so fun to engage with the students and see their excitement with classes starting on Monday,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and watch the video version of this story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/western-hosts-griff-up-downtown-event-for-college-freshmen\/article_4c6729e8-c4d5-11e9-a9b0-e74dd62ff8d5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bailey Ketcham News-Press NOW|Aug 22, 2019 For the first time 大象传媒 hosted the Griff Up downtown event to welcome the class of 2023 to St. Joseph. The event took place at Coleman Hawkins Park at Felix Street Square in order to get student acquainted with a new area. There was music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,27,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156"}],"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=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9157,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}