{"id":61245,"date":"2014-09-11T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=61245"},"modified":"2014-09-11T09:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:23:17","slug":"alumni-association-announces-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2014\/09\/alumni-association-announces-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Association announces contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University National Alumni Association recently announced a giveaway for alumni and friends who purchase Pig Pickin\u2019 BBQ tickets. Patrons who purchase tickets by Sept. 24 will be entered in a drawing for a 35-quart Yeti cooler \u2014 donated by the Alumni Association \u2014 and a free night\u2019s stay at the Alluvian in Greenwood.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $6 and can be pre-purchased at the Hugh Ellis Walker Alumni-Foundation House or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltastategiving.org\/alumniassociation\/pigpickin\">www.deltastategiving.org\/alumniassociation\/pigpickin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the cooler and the free night\u2019s stay will be announced Sept. 25 at noon via the Alumni Association\u2019s Facebook (Statesmen Graduates), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni) and Instragram (@dsualumni) accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Pig Pickin\u2019 fans should also be on the lookout for official Pig Pickin\u2019 T-shirts. This year\u2019s shirt will sport a new design and be on sale for $15. More information will be provided when tees are available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Alumni Association at (662) 846-4660. To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deltastateuniversityalumni\"><strong>Statesmen Graduates<\/strong><\/a>), Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DSU_Alumni\"><strong>@DSU_Alumni<\/strong><\/a>), Tumblr (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com<\/strong><\/a>), LinkedIn (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/DSU-Alumni-84668\/about\"><strong>DSU alumni<\/strong><\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/dsualumni\"><strong>dsualumni<\/strong><\/a>) and You Tube (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DSUalumni1\"><strong>dsualumni1<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University National Alumni Association recently announced a giveaway for alumni and friends who purchase Pig Pickin\u2019 BBQ tickets. Patrons who purchase tickets by Sept. 24 will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":61246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,418],"tags":[798,1408,799,10,797],"class_list":["post-61245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-community-3","tag-alluvian","tag-alumni","tag-bbq","tag-pig-pickin","tag-yeti"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61245","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61249,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61245\/revisions\/61249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}