{"id":31455,"date":"2026-03-16T15:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=31455"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:39:17","slug":"founding-day-and-pushball-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/founding-day-and-pushball-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding Day and Pushball 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, March 6 marked Founding Day fun at Macalester, a drizzly 50-degree afternoon celebrating tradition and community. This year, alongside the community-favorite Pushball game (ending in a dramatic overtime with the Class of 2029 vs. everyone else), students enjoyed food trucks, carnival games, DJs, and limited edition jerseys.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Check out photos from the annual event.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":31709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-31455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life","tag-founding-day","mediatype-photogalleries"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"main_feature_story":"","custom_image":false,"custom_link_url":"","custom_feature_title":"","custom_feature_caption":"","custom_markup":"","custom_markup_link":"","custom_markup_title":"","custom_markup_caption":"","byline":"","article_type":[5],"post_thumbnail_style":"default","flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_downloads":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","news_icon_name":"","image_options":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31711,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31455\/revisions\/31711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}