{"id":34162,"date":"2017-09-19T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34162"},"modified":"2017-09-20T00:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T05:50:23","slug":"old-wiest-demolition-almost-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34162","title":{"rendered":"Old Wiest Demolition Almost Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STORY BY JADEN MOUNT<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO BY MARIAH SMITH AND NATHAN JOHNS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The resident hall known as Wiest Hall is nearly finished its course of demolition. Wiest&#8217;s initial construction took place in 1961 and finished the second stage in 1971. Approximately 472 could live within those walls, named after Dr. Charles F. Wiest. Dr. Wiest<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wiest was hired originally as an English teacher before receiving an appointment as Professor of Philosophy and Religion\u00a0in 1927. After retiring in 1943, he died in a flash flood on May 22, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Wiest Hall has now been replaced by Victor E. Village, which was commonly called New Wiest at the start of its construction.<\/p>\n<p>(Please see the video below for highlights of the demolition.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-dZzPw42sk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STORY BY JADEN MOUNT VIDEO BY MARIAH SMITH AND NATHAN JOHNS &nbsp; The resident hall known as Wiest Hall is nearly finished its course of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,3398,11,1],"tags":[11274,103,290,11260,1944],"class_list":["post-34162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","category-campus-news","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-jaden-mount","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tmn","tag-victor-e-village","tag-wiest-hall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34162"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34169,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162\/revisions\/34169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}