{"id":1735,"date":"2015-10-15T17:51:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:51:38","slug":"wolfie-gets-a-new-coat-of-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolfie-gets-a-new-coat-of-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfie gets a new coat of paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/10\/PtW2Color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/10\/PtW2Color.jpg\" alt=\"PtW2Color\" width=\"2664\" height=\"4011\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/10\/PtW2Color.jpg 2848w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/10\/PtW2Color-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/10\/PtW2Color-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2664px) 100vw, 2664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>By: Brianna Bonham\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>Paint The Wolf is an annual event that happens during Student Leadership and Activities\u2019 (SLA) Homecoming Week celebration at Western.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition aims to create a deeper sense of community on campus by having first year students repaint and touch up the WOU wolf logo that is located in between Todd Hall and the Werner University Center on Church Street.<\/p>\n<p>The painting depicts Western&#8217;s beloved mascot, Wolfie. He became the mascot in 1928, in honor of Coach Larry Wolfe.<\/p>\n<p>This year, SLA hosted a barbeque for students painting the sign so they could enjoy good food while watching the wolf get a new paint job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree food is the best way to get a community together,\u201d said Seth Saechao, a first year elementary education major.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudent Leadership and Activities and the City of Monmouth agreed to paint the street with the logo \u2026 We just hope for good weather!\u201d said Ed E-Nunu the SLA advisor, as he touched up the letters spelling out Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paint The Wolf is an annual event that happens during Student Leadership and Activities\u2019 (SLA) Homecoming Week celebration at Western. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":1736,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","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\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}