{"id":676,"date":"2011-07-15T08:29:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T15:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?p=676"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:29:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T15:29:18","slug":"fsm-is-from-osu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2011\/07\/15\/fsm-is-from-osu\/","title":{"rendered":"FSM is from OSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, when you arrive to Oregon State, in the spirit of, well, school spirit, you&#8217;re told of all the things that OSU is known for. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marionberry\">marionberry<\/a>, a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry and <em>delicious<\/em>, was cultivated here and the modern <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maraschino_cherry\">maraschino cherry<\/a> developed here, too. Two-time nobelist, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus_Pauling\">Linus Pauling<\/a> graduated from OSU. \u00a0It is a land-, sea-, space- and sun-grant institution. \u00a0The first graduating class of OSU in 1870 &#8211; then the Corvallis State Agricultural College &#8211; was comprised of two men and one woman. And so on, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>But it took a chance encounter at my local food coop to learn that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/\">Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> was founded by an OSU physics graduate student! Given the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-14135523\">worldwide reach of Pastafarianism<\/a>, you&#8217;d think they&#8217;d bring that up in the orientation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, when you arrive to Oregon State, in the spirit of, well, school spirit, you&#8217;re told of all the things that OSU is known for. \u00a0The marionberry, a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry and delicious, was cultivated here and the modern maraschino cherry developed here, too. Two-time nobelist, Linus Pauling graduated from OSU. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[810,23],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fun","tag-oregon-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}