{"id":2988,"date":"2010-02-12T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2010-02-12T16:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:14:55","slug":"texas-snow-prompts-flurry-of-baylor-snowmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/02\/texas-snow-prompts-flurry-of-baylor-snowmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas snow prompts flurry of Baylor snowmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/12q0id\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"snowman-feb10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snowman-feb10.jpg\" alt=\"Snowman in front of Pat Neff Hall\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By bedtime last night, Dallas\/Fort Worth had racked up a single-day record of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/021210dnmetsnowhp.10be86105.html\" target=\"_blank\">over 9 inches of snow<\/a>. Waco didn&#8217;t get nearly that much &#8212; an inch or two, depending on the part of town &#8212; but resourceful students took the opportunity to have some winter fun, as snowmen popped up all over campus on this <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/12s9kt\" target=\"_blank\">snowy morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, there was <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetphoto.com\/11145313\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> by the Hankamer School of Business. Another sat near the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/12rnjw\" target=\"_blank\">Castellaw Communications Building<\/a>. One near Pat Neff Hall <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/12q0id\" target=\"_blank\">looked great last night<\/a>, though it was <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/12td7j\" target=\"_blank\">starting to fade<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Students weren&#8217;t the only ones getting in on the act, either. Several alumni built Baylor-themed snow creatures, ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/12tntr\" target=\"_blank\">this traditional snowman<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/12sl8g\" target=\"_blank\">this snow freshman<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetphoto.com\/11139097\" target=\"_blank\">this 9-foot-tall snowbear<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/tweetphoto.com\/11113553\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a closer view<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>[2\/15 update: Two more from alums! <a href=\"http:\/\/lovingthechildrenofzambia.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/record-snowfall-in-tx.html\" target=\"_blank\">One with a BU cap<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/missnikkisnews.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/winter-wonderland-in-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\">one who loves Sailor Bear<\/a>!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor snow sculptors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By bedtime last night, Dallas\/Fort Worth had racked up a single-day record of over 9 inches of snow. Waco didn&#8217;t get nearly that much &#8212; an inch or two, depending on the part of town &#8212; but resourceful students took the opportunity to have some winter fun, as snowmen popped up all over campus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-just-for-fun","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","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=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}