{"id":7312,"date":"2016-11-14T22:18:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=7312"},"modified":"2016-11-14T22:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:18:57","slug":"now-and-then-auggie-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2016\/11\/14\/now-and-then-auggie-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Now and then: Auggie Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">All good Homecoming celebrations need some friendly competition, right? This year, Augsburg College students got into the competitive spirit at a dodgeball tournament that pitted Auggie against Auggie in a battle testing speed, agility, and \u2026 fashion sense. The event\u2019s companion costume contest proved to be a lighthearted update on a long-time tradition. Coed sporting events have been part of Augsburg Homecoming for decades, and the outfits seem to get better with time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Pictured [top left]: Current students play dodgeball in Si Melby gymnasium. Photo by <strong>Briana Alamilla \u201917<\/strong> [Top right]: <strong>Jan (Koepcke) Steller \u201966<\/strong>, a member of this year\u2019s 50th reunion class, snaps the football during a 1965 coed Homecoming matchup. Archive Photo.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p2\">{LINK} See highlights from Homecoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All good Homecoming celebrations need some friendly competition, right? This year, Augsburg College students got into the competitive spirit at a dodgeball tournament that pitted Auggie against Auggie in a battle testing speed, agility, and \u2026 fashion sense. The event\u2019s companion costume contest proved to be a lighthearted update on a long-time tradition. Coed sporting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-7312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-2016"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions\/7395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}