{"id":3300,"date":"2007-08-20T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2007-08-20T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T17:24:21","slug":"auggies-at-the-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2007\/08\/20\/auggies-at-the-state-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggies at the State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3301\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3301\" alt=\"statefair_full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/06\/statefair_full.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"287\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minnesota State Fair, Aug.23 through Labor Day, Sept. 3, 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more than ten years, Augsburg has hosted a booth at the Minnesota State Fair. The fair runs Thursday, August 23 through Labor Day, September 3.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of Augsburg\u2019s booth this year is \u201c&#8221;Auggies are Everywhere: Taking Auggies Worldwide Since 1869&#8243;\u001d with an emphasis on our global programs. The give-away will be luggage tags, and alumni stopping by the booth can \u201csend\u201d a postcard to a favorite on-campus professor or staff member telling them where they\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fair is a great way for us to connect with our alumni and our new students coming in and to make the community more aware of our programs,\u201d says Julie Olson, vice president of enrollment management.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Michele Kidwell, enrollment assistant and coordinator of Augsburg\u2019s fair booth, adds, \u201cOur volunteers are the best because they\u2019re so excited to be a part of the fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The booth can be found in the Education Building, located on Cosgrove Street on the east side of the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnstatefair.org\">www.mnstatefair.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than ten years, Augsburg has hosted a booth at the Minnesota State Fair. The fair runs Thursday, August 23 through Labor Day, September 3. The theme of Augsburg\u2019s booth this year is \u201c&#8221;Auggies are Everywhere: Taking Auggies Worldwide Since 1869&#8243;\u001d with an emphasis on our global programs. The give-away will be luggage tags, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[264,903,1172,1633,1912,2695,2800],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-auggies-are-everywhere","tag-education-building","tag-global","tag-labor-day","tag-michele-kidwell","tag-state-fair","tag-taking-auggies-worldwide-since-1869"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}