  {"id":4066,"date":"2016-10-08T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T17:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2016-10-08T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T17:29:31","slug":"campus-clown-survival-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/campus-clown-survival-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus clown survival tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Ashton Newton\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Campus clowns are nothing to be afraid of. Here are some tips to help you get through the epidemic:<\/p>\n<p>1. Clowns are more afraid of you than you are of them.<br \/>\n2. There\u2019s a small chance that the clowns are friendly and just want to entertain you.<br \/>\n3. Clowns usually have big shoes, so you can run faster than them.<br \/>\n4. Clowns can smell fear so just try to smile and sing, \u201cLet it Go\u201d if you see one.<br \/>\n5. If you see a clown exit a vehicle, just remember that there could be an infinite amount of clowns remaining in the vehicle and plan your route accordingly.<br \/>\n6. A clown\u2019s true weakness is sadness, playing \u201cAngel\u201d by Sarah McLachlan while showing pictures of sad puppies should scare the clown off.<br \/>\n7. If it comes down to self-defense, a pie in the face will do more damage than any weapon could do.<br \/>\n8. Clowns only follow people because they want to cheer them up, so when running from a clown, laugh maniacally.<br \/>\n9. If there are clown sightings in your area, avoid walking through forests alone at night.<br \/>\n10. Hostility toward clowns creates hostile clowns. Follow the tips above so hopefully one day we can have peace between the clowns and us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ashton Newton Entertainment Editor Campus clowns are nothing to be afraid of. Here are some tips to help you get through the epidemic: 1. Clowns are more afraid of you than you are of them. 2. There\u2019s a small chance that the clowns are friendly and just want to entertain you. 3. Clowns usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","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\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}