{"id":119483,"date":"2024-02-23T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=119483"},"modified":"2024-02-23T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:23:58","slug":"119483-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/119483-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today &amp; Saturday &#8211; Join us for Mock Convention!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Wesleyan will select presidential and vice presidential candidates and approve a national Republican Party platform during OWU&#8217;s 2024 Mock Presidential Convention.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day event, replicating a U.S. nominating convention, will take place Feb. 23-24 in Gray Chapel. Everyone is invited to attend the free event, first held on campus in 1884.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Mock Convention will kick off at 4 p.m. Feb. 23 (doors open at 3) with opening ceremonies, including the traditional call to order, national anthem, and installation of convention chairs. Following a dinner break, platform debates will begin at 7 p.m. and continue into the night.<\/p>\n<p>Mock Convention will resume at 9 a.m. Feb. 24 and conclude at noon, following the election of the Republican presidential and vice presidential ticket and closing ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Because the event traditionally features the party out of the White House, this year&#8217;s Mock Convention will focus on the Republican race. The theme of the convention is &#8220;The Elephant in the Room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Mock Convention at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/owu.edu\/MockConvention\">owu.edu\/MockConvention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Politics &amp; Government, Mock Convention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Wesleyan will select presidential and vice presidential candidates and approve a national Republican Party platform during OWU&#8217;s 2024 Mock Presidential Convention. The two-day event, replicating a U.S. nominating convention, will take place Feb. 23-24 in Gray Chapel. Everyone is invited to attend the free event, first held on campus in 1884. This year&#8217;s Mock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119485,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119483\/revisions\/119485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}