{"id":4053,"date":"2022-12-01T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2023-01-19T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T08:25:05","slug":"ecc-hosts-national-day-post-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/ecc-hosts-national-day-post-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"ECC hosts National Day post COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Maryam Ansari&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharjah, UAE: American University of Sharjah students and members of the Emirati Cultural Club held the 51<sup>st<\/sup> National Day post COVID-19 on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPreparing for National Day is very stressful since this event has very high expectations. It is the first event post covid, so people are expecting a lot and we need to meet those expectations,\u201d said Laila Alhashmi, internal media coordinator of ECC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are going to see everyone\u2019s faces without the mask. Makes me remember how life was before Covid-19, which gives me a sense of comfort,\u201d said Alhashmi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ECC members contacted several organizations to get sponsors and vendors. Kiosks served different types of food during the event. IN addition, an Emirati woman applied henna for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alhashmi said that the event is also very exciting because it was the first event they are going to have after COVID-19 with no restrictions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCelebrating National Day gives me a chance to showcase my country&#8217;s potential, which was limited because of COVID-19,&#8221; said Hoor Al Ansaari, executive assistant of ECC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maryam Ansari&nbsp; Sharjah, UAE: American University of Sharjah students and members of the Emirati Cultural Club held the 51st National Day post COVID-19 on Nov. 29. \u201cPreparing for National Day is very stressful since this event has very high expectations. It is the first event post covid, so people are expecting a lot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32,35,17,46,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-4053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-clubs","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-sharjah-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}