{"id":3622,"date":"2026-05-05T21:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:52:25","slug":"this-weeks-owu-lingo-bob-the-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/this-weeks-owu-lingo-bob-the-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s OWU Lingo: Bob the Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Bishop, Bob the Bishop, or just &#8220;Bob&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0refers to Ohio Wesleyan University&#8217;s official mascot<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">, representing 24 NCAA Division III varsity teams and a proud, spirited campus culture. OWU&#8217;s &#8220;Battling Bishop&#8221; has earned some national hype, ranked #7 Most Unique college mascot by Yahoo Sports, and #11 Weirdest by eCampus.com. Bob brings high energy at student life and athletic events, rallying Bishops and connecting campus with the Delaware community.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out New@OWU each week for more OWU Lingo!<\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong> New@OWU<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:newatowu@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newatowu@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop, Bob the Bishop, or just &#8220;Bob&#8221;\u00a0refers to Ohio Wesleyan University&#8217;s official mascot, representing 24 NCAA Division III varsity teams and a proud, spirited campus culture. OWU&#8217;s &#8220;Battling Bishop&#8221; has earned some national hype, ranked #7 Most Unique college mascot by Yahoo Sports, and #11 Weirdest by eCampus.com. Bob brings high energy at student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"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":[505,506,504,17,197,189,186],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-students","tag-mascot","tag-battling-bishop","tag-bob","tag-bishop","tag-campus","tag-delaware","tag-lingo"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}