{"id":8621,"date":"2008-06-04T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T22:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2013-03-01T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T22:37:34","slug":"back-in-time-with-nau-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/back-in-time-with-nau-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in time with NAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8624\" alt=\"bronze statue\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Loiue3.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2012\/12\/Loiue3.jpg 350w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2012\/12\/Loiue3-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Let\u00a0<em>Inside NAU<\/em>\u00a0take you back in time this summer with tidbits of university history.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>The &#8216;handsome&#8217; lumberjack<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The 8-foot bronze statue of a shirtless lumberjack holding an ax in front of the NAU Bookstore was commissioned by past NAU President\u00a0<strong>J. Lawrence Walkup<\/strong>\u00a0for a student artist to create a &#8220;handsome, muscular youth, more symbolic of campus&#8221; than the traditional bearded, plaid-clad lumberjack.<\/p>\n<p>Sculptor Charles Bonney used himself as a model to save the expense of hiring one. He finished the lumberjack statue in 1968 and was paid $1.70 an hour. He worked 20 hours a week for many months. He also received a $500 honorarium for his efforts, which helped him pay for school.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<em>Mountain Campus, The Story of Northern Arizona University,<\/em>\u00a0by Platt Cline, page 295<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/back-in-time-with-nau-4\/\">Let\u00a0Inside NAU\u00a0take you back in time this summer with tidbits of university history. The &#8216;handsome&#8217; lumberjack The 8-foot bronze statue of a shirtless lumberjack holding an ax in front of the NAU Bookstore was commissioned by past NAU President\u00a0J. Lawrence Walkup\u00a0for a student artist to create a &#8220;handsome, muscular youth, more symbolic of campus&#8221; than&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":8624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8621","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\/8621","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=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}