{"id":502,"date":"2017-08-22T23:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T23:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/?p=502"},"modified":"2019-08-22T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T22:42:42","slug":"lsus-new-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/2017\/08\/22\/lsus-new-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU&#8217;s new mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August, LSU officially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/mikethetiger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcomed Mike VII<\/a>. For those who don&#8217;t know, Mike, VI passed away earlier this year from cancer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/mikethetiger\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/mikethetiger\/images\/LSU9205-mikevii-firstday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike the Tiger, VII<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I admit that after Mike, VI&#8217;s passing I was of the strong opinion that LSU should adopt a human mascot to lead the teams onto the fields. \u00a0I am a proponent of animal rights and essentially feel that all animals should be free (not in cages). I realize though that there are still times, when this just isn&#8217;t possible. Mike the VII, like his predecessor, is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/mediacenter\/news\/2017\/08\/01lsumike.eb.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rescue facility<\/a>. He&#8217;s never known freedom and it would be cruel to send him back to his ancestral home to fend for himself. LSU has done a fabulous job with his enclosure. Heck, it&#8217;s bigger than my house! Kudos, LSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, LSU officially welcomed Mike VII. For those who don&#8217;t know, Mike, VI passed away earlier this year from cancer. I admit that after Mike, VI&#8217;s passing I was of the strong opinion that LSU should adopt a human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/2017\/08\/22\/lsus-new-mascot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1104490],"tags":[127684,165],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lsu","tag-academia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bettye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}