{"id":36879,"date":"2015-12-09T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=36879"},"modified":"2015-12-09T17:26:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:26:24","slug":"brock-asked-to-participate-in-westjet-christmas-miracle-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/12\/brock-asked-to-participate-in-westjet-christmas-miracle-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock participates in WestJet \u2018Christmas Miracle\u2019 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WestJet\u2019s original\u00a0Christmas\u00a0Miracle video in 2013 went viral and currently has more than 42 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Brock University alumnus behind the videos, WestJet Team Lead, Sponsorship Greg Plata (BSM \u201908) reached out to Brock University and asked the school to help spread the word about this year\u2019s video. His team is relying on WestJet fans and supporters to help make it the best video yet.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to Random Acts of Kindness day, WestJet was hoping to complete 12,000 mini miracles on Wednesday, Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Among the mini miracles done at Brock University Wednesday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgraded a student&#8217;s parking from the back of Zone 2 to the closest spot in Zone 1 (see video below)<\/li>\n<li>Collected more than $215 to be used to buy peanut butter and tuna for Community Care<\/li>\n<li>Handed out free coffee, chips, candy and cookies to students studying around campus<\/li>\n<li>Athletics handed out free yoga class passes<\/li>\n<li>Brock Development and Alumni Relations staff handed out high fives and good cheer in Market Hall and other parts of campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"flexvideo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mp55iLKXTvE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WestJet\u2019s original Miracle video in 2013 went viral and currently has more than 42 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":36880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[3465,2596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36906,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36879\/revisions\/36906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}