{"id":30368,"date":"2014-04-24T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=30368"},"modified":"2014-04-24T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:16:24","slug":"nau-veterans-affairs-director-named-grand-marshal-armed-forces-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-veterans-affairs-director-named-grand-marshal-armed-forces-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Veterans Affairs director named grand marshal of Armed Forces Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10351\" alt=\"Andrew Griffin\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/griffin.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/>Retired Col. <strong>Andrew Griffin<\/strong>, director of NAU\u2019s Office of Military and Veteran Affairs, has been selected as the grand marshal of the 2014 Armed Forces Day Parade through downtown Flagstaff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Griffin) has a distinguished military and academic career and is completely dedicated to seeing veteran\u2019s succeed while providing essential community leadership, guidance and inspiration,\u201d Billy Weldon, state commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, said in a letter to NAU President <strong>John Haeger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The parade is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, May 17.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-veterans-affairs-director-named-grand-marshal-armed-forces-parade\/\">Retired Col. Andrew Griffin, director of NAU\u2019s Office of Military and Veteran Affairs, has been selected as the grand marshal of the 2014 Armed Forces Day Parade through downtown Flagstaff. \u201c(Griffin) has a distinguished military and academic career and is completely dedicated to seeing veteran\u2019s succeed while providing essential community leadership, guidance and inspiration,\u201d Billy&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":19291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30368","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\/30368","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=30368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}