{"id":8501,"date":"2020-12-02T17:17:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T23:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=8501"},"modified":"2020-12-02T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T23:47:18","slug":"sau-to-have-traditional-holiday-light-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2020\/sau-to-have-traditional-holiday-light-display\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU to have traditional holiday light display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the annual Celebration of Lights ceremony won\u2019t be held this year, Southern Arkansas University will still offer its festive holiday lighting displays throughout campus. The lighting displays will be turned on at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, and will remain lit each evening throughout the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>From the large tree at Overstreet Hall, to the Bell Tower and Centennial tree, to colorful displays at the Alumni Center, the Mulerider Activity Center, and Greek Theatre, the traditional displays will light up the campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though we can\u2019t have our annual lighting ceremony, we are excited to still bring this wonderful tradition to the community,\u201d said Brad Stout, director of Student Affairs Facilities. \u201cWe encourage everyone to drive through campus and enjoy the lights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8502\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/Christmas-lighting.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8502\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8502\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/Christmas-lighting-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/Christmas-lighting-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/Christmas-lighting-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/Christmas-lighting-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/12\/Christmas-lighting.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SAU campus will again feature holiday lighting this year.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the annual Celebration of Lights ceremony won\u2019t be held this year, Southern Arkansas University will still offer its festive holiday lighting displays throughout campus. The lighting displays will be turned on at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, and will remain lit each evening throughout the holiday season. From the large tree at Overstreet Hall,&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2020\/sau-to-have-traditional-holiday-light-display\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":8502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[265,7753],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"category-homepage","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}