{"id":16593,"date":"2007-12-12T14:43:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T21:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=16593"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T21:51:37","slug":"12-million-to-visit-campus-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/12-million-to-visit-campus-today\/","title":{"rendered":"12 million to visit campus today"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"10%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><object width=\"400\" height=\"267\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F114040030269916224093%2Falbumid%2F5867193842485407217%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"267\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F114040030269916224093%2Falbumid%2F5867193842485407217%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Like the 45-mile-an-hour winds and rain hitting campus last Friday, comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and her film crew blew into campus to visit freshman\u00a0<strong>Milly Venezia<\/strong>, who won a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/insidenau\/bumps\/2007\/12_5_07\/ellen.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Wish You Were Here<\/a>&#8221; contest sponsored by the show.<\/p>\n<p>The segment airs at 3 p.m. today, Dec. 12, on\u00a0<em>Ellen<\/em>, and can be seen on KNAZ Channel 2 and KPNX Channel 12. The show is viewed by 12 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The talk show host&#8217;s tomfoolery touched down in Venezia&#8217;s Philosophy 101 class with\u00a0<strong>Peter Kosso<\/strong>, at a Hot Spot brunch with Venezia and her second-floor Sechrist friends, and in Venezia&#8217;s room at Sechrist.<\/p>\n<p>DeGeneres and crew continued to brave the blustery afternoon by hitting some sites in downtown Flagstaff.<\/p>\n<p>DeGeneres enjoyed her visit and Venezia so much, the student was flown to appear on the show, and producers were back on campus Tuesday to run a live feed into Venezia&#8217;s room so the segment could include her friends watching the show from a new big-screen television\u2014a gift from DeGeneres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a blast,&#8221; Venezia said. &#8220;It was the most fun thing that ever happened to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/12-million-to-visit-campus-today\/\">Like the 45-mile-an-hour winds and rain hitting campus last Friday, comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and her film crew blew into campus to visit freshman\u00a0Milly Venezia, who won a &#8220;Wish You Were Here&#8221; contest sponsored by the show. The segment airs at 3 p.m. today, Dec. 12, on\u00a0Ellen, and can be seen on KNAZ&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":16596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}