{"id":8587,"date":"2025-10-17T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8587\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:24:09","slug":"an-oversized-tradition-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8587\/","title":{"rendered":"An oversized tradition \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s homecoming season in\u00a0North Texas,\u00a0making\u00a0Friday\u00a0night football bigger than it already is.<\/p>\n<p>And with it comes the super-sized high school tradition of homecoming mums.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of\u00a0Texas\u00a0culture,\u00a0and newcomers\u00a0are trying to understand it.<\/p>\n<p>Homecoming mum historian\u00a0Amy J.\u00a0Schultz,\u00a0author of\u00a0the book Mumentous,\u00a0is sharing the\u00a0fascinating\u00a0history at an event\u00a0in Arlington\u00a0this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Join Amy for \u201cAll\u00a0the\u00a0Bells\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Whistles:\u00a0The upsized history of homecoming mums in\u00a0Texas\u201d\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0Oct. 19, at 2 p.m.\u00a0at\u00a0Fielder Museum in Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>No\u00a0RSVP\u00a0needed. No admission fee.<\/p>\n<p>Just show up for a\u00a0\u201cmumentous&#8221; experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s homecoming season in\u00a0North Texas,\u00a0making\u00a0Friday\u00a0night football bigger than it already is. And with it comes the super-sized high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[300,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-8587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587","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=8587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}