{"id":48716,"date":"2017-09-13T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T23:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=48716"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T22:03:59","slug":"running-of-the-freshmen-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/running-of-the-freshmen-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The tradition continues: NAU&#8217;s Running of the Freshmen 2017 (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An event that started in 2007, Northern Arizona University&#8217;s Running of the Freshmen has grown to be a time-honored tradition that students, football players and fans alike look forward to each year. Cheered on by a stadium full of fans, thousands of freshmen, decked out in blue and gold face paint and sporting their NAU attire, lead the football team onto the field to kick off the first home game of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;This is one of my favorite NAU traditions,&#8221; <b>President Rita Cheng<\/b> said. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s2\">The energy in the Sky Dome is electric and i<\/span><span class=\"s1\">t\u2019s truly an exciting time for our students<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, <\/span><span class=\"s1\">football players<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> and community<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> to start the season as one.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NAU&#039;s Running of the Freshmen 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/je1bXwkS2PY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/running-of-the-freshmen-2017\/\">An event that started in 2007, Northern Arizona University&#8217;s Running of the Freshmen has grown to be a time-honored tradition that students, football players and fans alike look forward to each year. Cheered on by a stadium full of fans, thousands of freshmen, decked out in blue and gold face paint and sporting their NAU&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":48736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48716","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\/48716","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=48716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}