{"id":42077,"date":"2013-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/delta-center-welcomes-sam-houston-state-university\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:04:56","slug":"delta-center-welcomes-sam-houston-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/08\/delta-center-welcomes-sam-houston-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Center Welcomes Sam Houston State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" alt=\"The class is pictured in front of artist Sharon McConnell&rsquo;s collection of life-masked titled A Cast of Blues. The collection is on display in Ewing Hall on the Delta State campus, outside the Delta Center for Culture and Learning offices. \" class=\"caption\" src=\"\/Images\/DELTA.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Delta State Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently introduced a geography class from Sam Houston State University to the Delta&rsquo;s cultural heritage.&nbsp; This is the seventh year in a row that Dr. John Strait has brought his class to the Delta.&nbsp; Their week-long trip begins in Memphis and visits Clarksdale, Cleveland, Indianola, Greenwood and Greenville.&nbsp; This year they also visited the Emmett Till Center in Glendora.&nbsp; The Delta Center also annually hires Dr. Strait to present a lecture on the Great Migration to its NEH workshops, so he visits the Delta several times each year.&nbsp; The class is pictured in front of artist Sharon McConnell&rsquo;s collection of life-masked titled A Cast of Blues.&nbsp; The collection is on display in Ewing Hall on the DSU campus, outside the Delta Center&rsquo;s offices.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently welcomed a group of students from Sam Houston State University enrolled in Dr. John Strait\u2019s geography course&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":48251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42077","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\/42077","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=42077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42078,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42077\/revisions\/42078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}