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Sam Dunaway | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n How long have you been at Western?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c28 and a half years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What\u2019s your favorite part of your job?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe favorite part of my job is getting to know our students and I also work with an amazing staff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What are your favorite hobbies outside of work?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI love spending time with my dogs. I like to do outdoor activities of any kind, whether it\u2019s working in the yard or playing an organized sport or going on a walk \u2026 hanging out with friends is another, and just going on adventures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What\u2019s your favorite movie?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c\u2018It\u2019s a Wonderful Life.\u2019 That\u2019s probably my all-time favorite movie because it\u2019s the message in the movie that I think I can relate to and believe in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would you choose?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI love Mexican food, I love authentic Mexican food. And there really isn\u2019t a dish that I don\u2019t like \u2026 If I had to choose one food within Mexican food, I\u2019d have to choose tacos.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s your secret talent?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI can spin a basketball on my finger for an extended period of time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What\u2019s your favorite dessert?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnything related to ice cream. I love ice cream and I love frozen yogurt \u2026 It\u2019s versatile. You can eat it plain, you can add toppings to it, you can mix stuff in it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What\u2019s one job you\u2019d never do?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPresident of the United States. I\u2019d never go into politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Photo by: Paul F. Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam Dunaway | News Editor How long have you been at Western? \u201c28 and a half years.\u201d What\u2019s your favorite part of your job? \u201cThe favorite part of my job is getting to know our students and I also work with an amazing staff.\u201d What are your favorite hobbies outside of work? \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":7227,"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-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","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\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}