{"id":232717,"date":"2026-04-15T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:42:11","slug":"winter-park-fox-day-2026-rollins-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232717\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park: Fox Day 2026 Rollins College"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINTER PARK, Fla. \u2014 Hump day has turned into \u201cFox Day\u201d for students at Rollins College.<\/p>\n

President Brooke Barnett made the declaration Wednesday morning, canceling all classes for the College of Liberal Arts.<\/p>\n

Fox Day means undergrads at the Winter Park learning institution get to partake in the long-standing tradition of enjoying a day deemed \u201ctoo pretty to have class.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read: Mostly sunny and dry Wednesday in Central Florida<\/a><\/p>\n

The annual tradition was started in 1956 by Hugh McKean, Rollins\u2019 10th president.<\/p>\n

Each Fox Day, early in the morning, a statue of the Rollins fox is placed in the center of campus at Tars Plaza.<\/p>\n

Students will then hear the campus\u2019 chapel bell ring, alerting them of the special day.<\/p>\n

To read more about the Fox Day tradition at Rollins, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a92023 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER PARK, Fla. \u2014 Hump day has turned into \u201cFox Day\u201d for students at Rollins College. President Brooke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,145,28,104006,104004,139,141,140,5748,104003,104002,104005,144,146],"class_list":["post-232717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-channel-9","tag-florida","tag-fox-day-2026","tag-no-school-rollins-college-fox-day","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-rollins-college","tag-rollins-college-fox-day","tag-rollins-fox-day","tag-rollins-winter-park","tag-wftv","tag-wftv-channel-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}