{"id":8545,"date":"2021-01-26T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=8545"},"modified":"2021-01-26T09:20:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:20:28","slug":"saus-candle-of-hope-to-shine-throughout-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2021\/saus-candle-of-hope-to-shine-throughout-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU&#8217;s Candle of Hope to shine throughout 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/01\/SAU-CANDLE-OF-HOPE.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8546\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/01\/SAU-CANDLE-OF-HOPE-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/01\/SAU-CANDLE-OF-HOPE-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/01\/SAU-CANDLE-OF-HOPE-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/01\/SAU-CANDLE-OF-HOPE-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/01\/SAU-CANDLE-OF-HOPE.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Southern Arkansas University will keep its \u201cCandle of Hope\u201d illuminated throughout 2021 until the battle against the worldwide pandemic is won.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trey Berry, SAU president, said the annual conversion of the University\u2019s bell tower to a beautiful holiday candle creates \u201ca beacon that can be seen for miles around. As we move through our struggle against the COVID-19 virus, the tower will remain on as a Candle of Hope.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It will serve as a symbol of promise for the SAU campus, community and region. \u201cWe are all in this struggle together,\u201d said Berry, \u201cand together, we WILL defeat this invisible enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The candle is normally part of the holiday lighting display at SAU. Though the Celebration of Lights ceremony was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the campus was nonetheless illuminated for the holidays. The Candle of Hope will continue to shine as SAU remains #Mulerider Strong.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"98%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Arkansas University will keep its \u201cCandle of Hope\u201d illuminated throughout 2021 until the battle against the worldwide pandemic is won. Dr. Trey Berry, SAU president, said the annual conversion of the University\u2019s bell tower to a beautiful holiday candle creates \u201ca beacon that can be seen for miles around. As we move through our&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2021\/saus-candle-of-hope-to-shine-throughout-2021\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":8546,"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":[276,7753],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community-corner","8":"category-homepage","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545","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=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}