{"id":583,"date":"2008-08-19T09:29:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/08\/19\/meet-the-bears-greet-the-bears\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:29:45","slug":"meet-the-bears-greet-the-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/08\/meet-the-bears-greet-the-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Bears, greet the Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/meet-the-bears-aug08.jpg\" alt=\"Bruiser with kids at Meet the Bears\" align=\"right\" \/>Baylor football held its annual <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/spec-rel\/081608aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Meet the Bears&#8221;<\/a> gathering Saturday and drew an estimated 1,200 fans for the event and the 90-minute scrimmage earlier that morning.<\/p>\n<p>Fans in attendance mingled with Baylor players and head coach Art Briles, who signed autographs and posed for pictures. We&#8217;ve got our own photos to share, thanks to Baylor Photography; <a href=\"http:\/\/bearspace.baylor.edu\/Group_BaylorProud\/www\/galleries\/meet-the-bears-08\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here for our photo gallery<\/a> from the day. If that&#8217;s not enough, check out more photos on <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/view.gal?id=32417\" target=\"_blank\">BaylorBears.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/baylor\/mediahub\/media\/slideshow\/index.jsp?tId=116813\" target=\"_blank\">WacoTrib.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nine days &#8217;til kickoff! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/nt\/linktrack.exe?http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/tickets\/bay-tickets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Get your tickets now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor football!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor football held its annual &#8220;Meet the Bears&#8221; gathering Saturday and drew an estimated 1,200 fans for the event and the 90-minute scrimmage earlier that morning. Fans in attendance mingled with Baylor players and head coach Art Briles, who signed autographs and posed for pictures. We&#8217;ve got our own photos to share, thanks to Baylor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-just-for-fun","category-photo-galleries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}