{"id":44763,"date":"2017-11-09T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=44763"},"modified":"2017-11-14T20:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:40:54","slug":"show-your-riverbat-pride-wear-purple-on-nov-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/11\/09\/show-your-riverbat-pride-wear-purple-on-nov-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Show your Riverbat pride! Wear purple on Nov. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACC students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to show their Riverbat pride by wearing purple Thursday, November 16. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each year ACC celebrates all things Riverbats by commemorating the birthday of its beloved mascot, RB. This year RB turns seven years old. The lights at ACC Highland Campus will be lit purple for the entire week in recognition of his birthday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wear purple on Nov. 16 to receive a complimentary ACC Riverbats logo vinyl decal. You can pick one up from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/locations\/campuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">following locations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (while supplies last): <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/sl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Office of Student Life<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at HLC, HYS, PIN, SAC, EVC, RVS, EGN, RRC, NRG, and CYP campuses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Campus Manager\u2019s Office at RGC<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACC Mailroom at SVC<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sixth floor, Room 611.4 at HBC<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While you&#8217;re on campus, watch for RB, he&#8217;s making stops districtwide and bringing treats. Track his moves on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ACCDistrict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/accdistrict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and share your spirit with\u00a0#RiverbatPride.<\/p>\n<h3>About RB<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R.B. Bbhoggawact is the official name of the ACC Riverbat. Bbhoggawact is an acronym (minus the vowels) for the college&#8217;s eight-county service area &#8211; Bastrop, Blanco, Hays, Gillespie, Gonzales, Williamson, Caldwell, and Travis. R.B. Bbhoggawact is quite a mouthful, so you can just call him R.B. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/riverbat\/about-our-mascot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More about RB&gt;&gt;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>View appearance photos from the last year:<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;44762&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACC students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to show their Riverbat pride by wearing purple Thursday, November 16. Each year ACC celebrates all things Riverbats by commemorating the birthday of its beloved mascot, RB. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/11\/09\/show-your-riverbat-pride-wear-purple-on-nov-16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4107,"featured_media":44765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[686,98,608],"class_list":["post-44763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facstaff-news","category-updates","tag-acc-riverbat-day","tag-riverbat","tag-riverbat-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}