{"id":48698,"date":"2017-12-24T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T16:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=48698"},"modified":"2018-01-11T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T19:05:10","slug":"lefse-waffles-and-friendship-velkommen-jul-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2017\/12\/24\/lefse-waffles-and-friendship-velkommen-jul-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Lefse, Waffles and Friendship: Velkommen Jul 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg celebrated<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/01\/VELKOMMEN-JUL1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47540 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/01\/VELKOMMEN-JUL1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Lefse\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u00a0the holiday period in true Norweigian style, and nearly fifty Augsburg\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Associates<\/span>\u00a0volunteered at the 2017 Velkommen Jul festivities on December 1. Many volunteers were busy putting in extra days to\u00a0make special Norwegian treats, and arrived early to help butter bread and lefse, and ensure that the event was a huge success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-7169388274060143526gmail-m_-3509326505804115463m_4601536793756500847gmail-m_5454393967304556665gmail-MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">There was exceptional student participation, including the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Associates<\/span>\u00a0scholarship students who served waffles to hungry patrons.<\/span><span style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0The event celebrated\u00a0long-standing\u00a0Augsburg\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/01\/VELKOMMEN-JUL2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47541 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/01\/VELKOMMEN-JUL2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Three ladies browsing the items for sale.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>friendships, and encouraged guests to create new friendships from our diverse community.\u00a0<\/span>Guests expressed their appreciation with kind words and contributions, and the scholarship baskets gathered a superb $1190.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg celebrated\u00a0the holiday period in true Norweigian style, and nearly fifty Augsburg\u00a0Associates\u00a0volunteered at the 2017 Velkommen Jul festivities on December &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,820,10,11,15],"tags":[32,234,712,173,139,144,65],"class_list":["post-48698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights","category-campus-reflections","category-community-connections","category-events","category-volunteer-opportunities","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-events","tag-alumni-spotlight","tag-auggie","tag-auggies","tag-augsburg-associates","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48701,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698\/revisions\/48701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}