{"id":324483,"date":"2026-05-20T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324483\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:46:34","slug":"rowdy-the-roadrunner-statue-unveiled-at-meadows-field-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324483\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rowdy the Roadrunner\u2019 statue unveiled at Meadows Field Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Cal State Bakersfield and Kern County leaders unveiled a new \u201cRowdy the Roadrunner\u201d statue Monday inside Meadow Field Airport\u2019s main terminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rowdy is flexing and showing off some Runner pride. The University wants visitors to know that CSUB is Kern County\u2019s university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">School officials said Rowdy is there to greet people as they arrive in Bakersfield and send them off with a little spirit from runner nation before they fly out.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Cal State Bakersfield and Kern County leaders unveiled a new \u201cRowdy the Roadrunner\u201d statue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,9930,735,135027,5527],"class_list":["post-324483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cal-state-bakersfield","tag-kern-county","tag-rowdy-the-roadrunner","tag-school-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}