{"id":254350,"date":"2026-04-17T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:42:07","slug":"transfer-of-reins-passing-of-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254350\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer of Reins, Passing of Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; (News release from Texas Tech University) <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WHAT: Texas Tech University formally welcomes the future leaders behind two of its most recognizable figures: the Masked Rider and Raider Red. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WHEN: Friday (April 17), Transfer of Reins at 2 p.m.; Passing of Guns at 3:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WHERE: McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center, 17th Street and University Avenue<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">EVENT: The legacy continues as the 65th Masked Rider steps forward to claim the reins and saddle. Following suit, a new Raider Red will receive the signature guns, beginning their role as the recognizable mascot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; (News release from Texas Tech University) WHAT: Texas Tech University formally welcomes the future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[447,64,319,251,168,170,169,95978,1769,873,95977],"class_list":{"0":"post-254350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-events","10":"tag-kcbd","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-passing-of-guns","16":"tag-texas-tech","17":"tag-texas-tech-university","18":"tag-transfer-of-the-reins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}