{"id":9302,"date":"2008-08-13T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T21:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:53:53","slug":"back-in-time-with-nau-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/back-in-time-with-nau-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in time with NAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u00a0<em>Inside NAU<\/em>\u00a0take you back in time this summer with tidbits of university history.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #61003d;\">History lesson: Talking up history<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A World War II Navajo Code Talker sculpture dons north campus in remembrance of the Navajo Nation&#8217;s role in the war&#8217;s secret military communications.<\/p>\n<p>Sculpted in the image of his code-talker father by renowned Native American artist and NAU alumnus\u00a0<strong>R.C. Gorman<\/strong>, the iconic piece of art was dedicated to NAU in 1995 during the university&#8217;s celebration of the Year of the Native American.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture continues to represent NAU&#8217;s commitment to Native American students. Gorman, referred to as the &#8220;Picasso of American Indian art,&#8221; died in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<em>Mountain Campus Centennial\u00a0<\/em>by Platt Cline<\/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-12\/\">Let\u00a0Inside NAU\u00a0take you back in time this summer with tidbits of university history. History lesson: Talking up history A World War II Navajo Code Talker sculpture dons north campus in remembrance of the Navajo Nation&#8217;s role in the war&#8217;s secret military communications. Sculpted in the image of his code-talker father by renowned Native American artist&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9302","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\/9302","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=9302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}