{"id":46544,"date":"2017-02-23T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=46544"},"modified":"2017-02-24T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:24:43","slug":"nau-students-celebrate-kuwaits-national-day-drive-around-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-students-celebrate-kuwaits-national-day-drive-around-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU students celebrate Kuwait&#8217;s National Day with drive around campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Campus-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46545 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Campus-Map-500x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Campus Map\" width=\"320\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2017\/02\/Campus-Map-500x1024.jpg 500w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2017\/02\/Campus-Map-147x300.jpg 147w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2017\/02\/Campus-Map-768x1571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2017\/02\/Campus-Map.jpg 826w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>In honor of Kuwait\u2019s National Day, the NAU student Kuwaiti club will celebrate and raise awareness with a drive around campus from 3-4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 15 high-end hot rods, escorted by the Northern Arizona University Police Department, will display national flags and play traditional Kuwaiti music as they weave their way through NAU\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kuwait\u2019s National Day (Feb. 25) is a day we celebrate the independence of Kuwait from the United Kingdom and the liberation from Iraqi invasion (Feb. 26), which the United States was a big part of,\u201d Kuwaiti club member <strong>Sulaiman AlAli<\/strong> said. &#8220;It is very significant for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students\u2019 route will begin and end at the south commuter lot; the drive around campus should take less than 40 minutes. A map depicting the route is pictured left.<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to continue the celebration with the club from 6 p.m. to midnight at the DuBois Ballroom where there will be traditional food, beverages and vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-students-celebrate-kuwaits-national-day-drive-around-campus\/\">In honor of Kuwait\u2019s National Day, the NAU student Kuwaiti club will celebrate and raise awareness with a drive around campus from 3-4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24. Approximately 15 high-end hot rods, escorted by the Northern Arizona University Police Department, will display national flags and play traditional Kuwaiti music as they weave their way&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":46549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46544","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}