{"id":579,"date":"2010-10-21T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2010\/10\/centennial-reunions-humor.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:15:34","slug":"centennial-reunions-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2010\/10\/centennial-reunions-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"A little Reunions &#8217;11 levity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve likely noticed by now that Centennial Reunions is going to be a very big deal. More than 1,500 Reedies are expected to converge back on campus to help celebrate Reed&#8217;s 100th birthday at Centennial Reunions, June 6-12, 2011. Though the lure of Reed is undeniable (Dr. Demento has said, &#8220;After 48 years Reed still pulls me like a magnet. I can already feel the field getting stronger!&#8221;), we know that returning to the mothership can be fraught with conflicting feelings&#8230; thus, we embark on a course of humor, of which I&#8217;m sure the good doctor would approve (warning, Mateo-brand levity ahead!).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/burtch_thumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"burtch_thumb.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2010\/10\/burtch_thumb-thumb-40x40-1249.jpg\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a> <!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/spring2007\/features\/what_would_say\/burtch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mateo Burtch &#8217;82<\/a>, a freelance writer and cartoonist in the Bay Area, will be leading us down the primrose path with his periodic comic strips, beginning with this reflection on some classic characters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2010\/10\/Mateo_reu.strip1-thumb-1048x406-1244-thumb-800x309-1245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Mateo_reu.strip1.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2010\/10\/Mateo_reu.strip1-thumb-1048x406-1244-thumb-800x309-1245-thumb-750x289-1247.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"289\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&apos;ve likely noticed by now that Centennial Reunions is going to be a very big deal. More than 1,500 Reedies are expected to converge back on campus to help celebrate Reed&apos;s 100th birthday at Centennial Reunions, June 6-12, 2011. Though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reunions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}