{"id":16682,"date":"2020-11-24T18:47:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T02:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=16682"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:36:33","slug":"join-the-holiday-scavenger-hunt-for-hidden-gnomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/join-the-holiday-scavenger-hunt-for-hidden-gnomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the holiday scavenger hunt for hidden gnomes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGnome on the Roam,\u201d a free holiday event in Independence<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Natalie Dean<\/strong> | Entertainment Editor\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order for the community to celebrate<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this year\u2019s holiday season, many local events and traditions have to make accommodations. \u201cGnome on the Roam,\u201d a free family-friendly scavenger hunt, is a holiday event hosted by the Independence Downtown Association. Running from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and spanning from Nov. 28 to Jan. 9, there will be plenty of time for members of the community to participate in the scavenger hunt and find the 15 plus gnomes that are painted in the shop windows along Main Street and C Street in downtown Independence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These crafty little gnomes will be hiding well, so be on the lookout and pick up a scavenger hunt form \u23e4 they will be available in front of Indy Commons and other businesses starting Nov. 28. Once all the mystery items have been found, people can drop off the form in the dropbox at Indy Commons, 154 S Main Street, for a chance to be entered into a weekly drawing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The prizes will include $20 gift certificates to any downtown business of your choice. Updates on the \u201cGnome on the Roam\u201d scavenger hunt and future events can be found on the Independence Downtown Association\u2019s Facebook, and their Instagram page @downtownindependence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:ndean17@wou.edu\">ndean17@wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGnome on the Roam,\u201d a free holiday event in Independence<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Dean | Entertainment Editor\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":16654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[376,310,378,154,279,280],"class_list":["post-16682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-gnome-on-the-roam","tag-independence","tag-independence-downtown-association","tag-lifestyle","tag-natalie","tag-natalie-dean"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}