{"id":22285,"date":"2020-01-30T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=22285"},"modified":"2020-01-30T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:42:31","slug":"happy-175th-birthday-baylor-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2020\/01\/happy-175th-birthday-baylor-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 175th birthday, Baylor University!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22286\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/175billboard-jan20.jpg\" alt=\"Billboard celebrating Baylor's 175th anniversary\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/175billboard-jan20.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/175billboard-jan20-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/175billboard-jan20-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/175billboard-jan20-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/175billboard-jan20-1536x768.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baylor University was chartered by the Republic of Texas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/02\/is-baylor-the-oldest-university-in-texas\/\">Feb. 1, 1845<\/a> &#8212; making us the oldest continually operating university in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>That means Saturday is the university&#8217;s 175th birthday! Banners (and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Baylor\/status\/1221860501560418304\">a new billboard on I-35<\/a>) have already gone up all around campus, and the Baylor community will be celebrating #Baylor175 all month long (really, all semester long). Featured events include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a celebration at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3aj2hQk\">Saturday&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball game vs. TCU<\/a> (with free popcorn, birthday hats and other surprises);<\/li>\n<li>a birthday-themed Dr Pepper Hour on Feb. 18 (think birthday cake, giveaways, balloon artists, photo ops and more);<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/network\/index.php?id=966181\">a special event for alumni and friends<\/a> on Feb. 21, hosted by Robert Griffin III; and<\/li>\n<li>an international day of service in April (basically, Steppin&#8217; Out transported to wherever Baylor alumni live).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other events and happenings include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7y-KoJDE3q\/\">a birthday party for our live bears<\/a>, Joy and Lady, on Saturday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/mayborn\/index.php?id=932031\">a special exhibit at the Mayborn Museum<\/a> on Baylor&#8217;s history that debuts Feb. 1. Baylor&#8217;s social media accounts will also be sharing a wide range of content celebrating the university&#8217;s long history.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Bears!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor University was chartered by the Republic of Texas on Feb. 1, 1845 &#8212; making us the oldest continually operating university in Texas. That means Saturday is the university&#8217;s 175th birthday! Banners (and a new billboard on I-35) have already gone up all around campus, and the Baylor community will be celebrating #Baylor175 all month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}