{"id":6417,"date":"2012-11-29T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T16:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2012-11-30T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T21:24:01","slug":"campus-traditions-brighten-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/campus-traditions-brighten-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus traditions brighten the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"glow\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/glow.jpg\" alt=\"Student placing glow sticks in luminaria display\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy a festive stroll along luminaria-lined campus walkways this weekend as a longstanding holiday tradition kicks off the holiday season at NAU.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Transfer and Commuter Connections will light hundreds of luminarias and provide refreshments beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at the historic North Quad. This year, the merriment also will include luminarias at the du Bois Center on south campus.<\/p>\n<p>For information, call (928) 523-9330 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:TandCConnections@nau.edu\">TandCConnections@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another annual campus tradition further illuminates the holidays when the large tree next to the Blome building on north campus is ceremoniously lit at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, as students from Mortar Board, a service organization of seniors, offer up free hot chocolate, cider and cookies.<\/p>\n<p>The group also will be collecting new and used children\u2019s books for its annual book drive to benefit Hope Cottage.<\/p>\n<p>A showing of\u00a0<em>The Polar Express<\/em>\u00a0follows the ceremony at 7 p.m. in Prochnow Auditorium. Tickets are $3 each or two for $5.<\/p>\n<p>For information, email <a href=\"mailto:ecw45@nau.edu\">Erika Wedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/campus-traditions-brighten-the-holidays\/\">Enjoy a festive stroll along luminaria-lined campus walkways this weekend as a longstanding holiday tradition kicks off the holiday season at NAU. The Office of Transfer and Commuter Connections will light hundreds of luminarias and provide refreshments beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at the historic North Quad. This year, the merriment also will&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6417","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\/6417","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=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}