{"id":3440,"date":"2013-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/01\/14\/nfl-great-joe-horn-visits-delta-state-university\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:05:42","slug":"nfl-great-joe-horn-visits-delta-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/01\/nfl-great-joe-horn-visits-delta-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Great Joe Horn visits Delta State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"\/Images\/Joe Horn.JPG\" alt=\"PHOTO:  Former New Orleans Saints wide receiver Joe Horn speaks during a round table discussion on raising money for scholarships hosted by the Delta State University Alumni and Foundation as Delta State&rsquo;s Director of Donor Relations Ann Giger looks on. \" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former New Orleans Saints wide receiver Joe Horn visited Delta State University on Wednesday, January 9.&nbsp; He participated in a round-table discussion with representatives from Delta State University, Polk&rsquo;s Meat Products of Magee, Walmart and the Cleveland community to initiate planning for a fund raising event to benefit the Delta State University Scholarship Initiative. The event was organized by the Delta State Alumni and Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Joe Horn&rsquo;s involvement at Delta State University will help bring greater visibility to our Scholarship Initiative,&rdquo; said Delta State&rsquo;s Director of Donor Relations Ann Giger. &ldquo;We are thankful to Joe and Polk&rsquo;s Meat Products for partnering with Delta State University.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Polk&rsquo;s Meat Products and Walmart are marketing Horn&rsquo;s new line of barbeque sauce and sausage.&nbsp; Horn proposed a collaborative effort between the companies and Delta State to help raise funds for the Delta State University Scholarship Initiative. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mississippi has been so very good to me and I am proud to have the opportunity to participate in a project&nbsp; with Delta State University,&rdquo; said Horn.&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;The most important thing to me is that we develop a fun, exciting event that is available to everyone in an effort to raise funds for the Scholarship Initiative.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Delta State University Scholarship Initiative, contact the Delta State Foundation at 662-846-4704, http:\/\/www.deltastategiving.org.&nbsp; Horn&rsquo;s new line of barbeque sauce and sausage can be seen at www.joehornbbq.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\tmso-style-priority:99;\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\tmso-para-margin:0in;\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\tfont-size:10.0pt;\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";}&lt;![endif]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Orleans Saints wide receiver Joe Horn visited Delta State University on Wednesday, January 9&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","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\/3440","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=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40864,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/40864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}