{"id":3142,"date":"2012-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/07\/11\/teachers-learn-about-delta-heritage\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:13","slug":"teachers-learn-about-delta-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/07\/teachers-learn-about-delta-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers learn about Delta heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/Teachers.JPG\" \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><b>Photo:<\/b>&nbsp; The teachers gathered for a photo at the welcome reception at the Martin and Sue King Railroad Museum.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">CLEVELAND, Miss. &#8212; The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning welcomed 40 teachers representing 20 states to its July workshop series this past weekend.&nbsp;&nbsp; The series titled &quot;The Most Southern Place on Earth:&nbsp; Music, History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta&quot; is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and gives participants an intensive, week-long, exploration of the heritage of the Delta.&nbsp; <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">Applications came from 47 states, and more than four times as many people applied as could be accepted.&nbsp; A welcoming reception was held at the Martin and Sue King Railroad Museum. Sponsors included Cheryl Line of the Tourism Committee of the Cleveland-Bolivar County Chamber of Commerce, Homer Sledge of the Cleveland Nehi Bottling Company, Robert Heslip of Cecil&rsquo;s Liquor Store,&nbsp;the Parlor Pearlers of Calvary Episcopal Church, Rachel Tate, Gregory Cole, Asa Atkinson, and Eddy Causey. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning welcomed 40 teachers representing 20 states to its July workshop series this past weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40989,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/40989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}