{"id":22299,"date":"2020-02-13T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=22299"},"modified":"2020-02-13T09:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:08:38","slug":"baylor175-adam-cassidy-smith-both-bba-07-macc-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2020\/02\/baylor175-adam-cassidy-smith-both-bba-07-macc-07\/","title":{"rendered":"#Baylor175: Adam &#038; Cassidy Smith (both BBA &#8217;07, MACC &#8217;07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>What does your Baylor experience mean to you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Him: &#8220;Our first picture together was over there at the bonfire in 2003, and the fire was in the background. Then our senior year, 2007, I proposed on the Suspension Bridge and then we walked over and had the bonfire after that and recreated the picture. Now we\u2019re back with three kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her: &#8220;&#8221;I think I&#8217;ve only ever missed Homecoming when I was, like, due with a child the next week. &#8230; I actually started hanging out with [Adam] at our first homecoming, and so it&#8217;s always kind of been a landmark occasion for our relationship. We invited professors to our wedding. When I tell that to people who go to bigger schools, they don&#8217;t understand. They&#8217;re like, &#8216;Wait, what do you mean you actually know your professors on a personal level?&#8217; So we always say Baylor Family, because it&#8217;s so true for us, and no matter where you go, you find somebody from Baylor and it is like family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Adam (BBA &#8217;07, MACC &#8217;07) and Cassidy (BBA &#8217;07, MACC &#8217;07) Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22300\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/smith-SQ-feb20.jpg\" alt=\"Adam &amp; Cassidy Smith (with kids) standing along 5th Street\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/smith-SQ-feb20.jpg 2268w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/smith-SQ-feb20-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/smith-SQ-feb20-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/smith-SQ-feb20-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/smith-SQ-feb20-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/smith-SQ-feb20-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/smith-SQ-feb20-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Baylor University was chartered by the Republic of Texas on Feb. 1, 1845, which makes this year our 175th anniversary. As part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2020\/01\/happy-175th-birthday-baylor-university\/\">our celebration<\/a>, we\u2019re sharing stories from Baylor alumni about their BU experience all semester long.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does your Baylor experience mean to you? Him: &#8220;Our first picture together was over there at the bonfire in 2003, and the fire was in the background. Then our senior year, 2007, I proposed on the Suspension Bridge and then we walked over and had the bonfire after that and recreated the picture. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22299","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=22299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}