{"id":8582,"date":"2023-03-27T12:34:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=8582"},"modified":"2023-04-07T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T20:21:19","slug":"happy-100th-birthday-rhody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/spring-2023\/happy-100th-birthday-rhody\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 100th Birthday, Rhody!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-half_column\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-500x750.jpg\" alt=\"Rhody the Ram, standing in front of cheerleaders, cheering the Men's URI basketball team during the game\" class=\"wp-image-9177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-500x750.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-364x546.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-1000x1500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-1280x1920.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Rhody-100-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">URI\u2019s official mascot, Rhody the Ram, turns 100 this year. Rhody stays forever young by keeping busy cheering on our football and men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games and attending all kinds of events year-round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ram became URI\u2019s official mascot on March 8, 1923, symbolizing URI\u2019s history as an agricultural institution. In 1929, a live ram appeared as a mascot at a football game, a tradition that would continue until the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look for more about Rhody in\u00a0<em>URI Magazine\u00a0<\/em>later this year, and visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/rhody-centennial\/\">uri.edu\/news\/rhody-centennial<\/a>\u00a0for stories and photos of Rhody through the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"feature-caption wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: Michael Salerno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhody stays forever young by keeping busy cheering on our football and men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games and attending all kinds of events year-round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2023","architecture-back-cover"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9179,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions\/9179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}