{"id":4735,"date":"2016-09-08T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:22:27","slug":"missouri-western-celebrates-family-weekend-sept-16-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/08\/missouri-western-celebrates-family-weekend-sept-16-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Western celebrates Family Weekend Sept. 16-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/09\/FamilyWeekendFront_Dana.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a>Comedy, carnival games, tailgating and more highlight Family Weekend activities at 含羞草社区 Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16 and 17. Events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend begins with a free show by comedian Jeff Scheen at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101. Scheen has been featured in the Laughs TV show, was a finalist at the 2015 Laughing Skull Festival, is a regular at the Chicago Laugh Factory, Zanies and several independent comedian-run shows, and was showcased at the Cleveland Comedy Festival, Laugh Your Asheville Off in North Carolina, and Laughfest in Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Sept. 17, students and families are invited to enjoy fun family-friendly activities, including carnival games, inflatables, a photo booth and build-a-critter from noon to 4 p.m. inside Looney Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Bushman Planetarium inside Agenstein Hall will present three free planetarium shows on Saturday afternoon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAfrica: The Serengeti\u201d, 1 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cForces of Nature\u201d, 2 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSea Monsters\u201d, 3 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Family Weekend wraps up with Missouri Western Griffon football hosting Central Missouri at 6 p.m. on Craig Field at Spratt Memorial Stadium. Students and families are invited to tailgate before the game in Lot H beginning at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><em>含羞草社区 is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>EDIT 9\/14: change location of carnival games to Looney Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy, carnival games, tailgating and more highlight Family Weekend activities at 含羞草社区 Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16 and 17. Events are free and open to the public. The weekend begins with a free show by comedian Jeff Scheen at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,48,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8198,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions\/8198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}