{"id":11590,"date":"2019-12-19T23:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T07:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2019-12-19T23:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T07:13:19","slug":"westerns-52nd-annual-holiday-tree-lighting-lit-up-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/westerns-52nd-annual-holiday-tree-lighting-lit-up-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Western\u2019s 52nd annual Holiday Tree Lighting lit up the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Sage Kiernan-Sherrow<\/strong>\u00a0 | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the rainy atmosphere present on December 6, students gathered together for Western\u2019s 52nd annual holiday tree lighting, lining both sides of Monmouth Avenue with anticipation. Some stood with hands wrapped around the free drinks offered by Student Engagement, huddling with fellow students to escape the cold while waiting for the parade to start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beginning at 6 p.m., the parade was led by Western\u2019s American Sign Language Club, later followed by the sirens of the Monmouth Police Department not to be outdone by Western\u2019s own marching band. During the procession, both the Director and Associate Director of Student Engagement, Patrick Moser and Megan Habermann, respectively, opted to tell holiday-themed jokes before the crowning moment of the parade \u2014 Santa\u2019s arrival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Afterwards, Western\u2019s president, Rex Fuller, addressed the crowd, calling for students to \u201ctreat each other and ourselves with care and compassion\u201d during this season of giving. Then, he invited everyone to participate in the countdown whereupon, finally, the famous giant sequoia that sits next to Todd Hall \u2014 which, prior to the event, had been strung up with lights \u2014 was lit, indicating that the parade celebrations were over, but the holiday season was only beginning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students looking for further celebrations congregated at the Gentle House for snacks and wine, while others headed into the Werner University Center to meet with Santa and get into the holiday spirit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:howlnews@wou.edu\">howlnews@wou.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sage Kiernan-Sherrow\u00a0 | News Editor Despite the rainy atmosphere present on December 6, students gathered together for Western\u2019s 52nd annual holiday tree lighting, lining both sides of Monmouth Avenue with anticipation. Some stood with hands wrapped around the free drinks offered by Student Engagement, huddling with fellow students to escape the cold while waiting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}