{"id":63166,"date":"2015-03-24T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=63166"},"modified":"2015-03-24T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:50:50","slug":"alumni-encourages-go-green-weekend-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/03\/alumni-encourages-go-green-weekend-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni encourages Go Green Weekend attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Alumni Association will participate in Delta State\u2019s upcoming event Go Green Weekend March 27-29.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Alumni Association Jeffrey Farris said tailgating will begin at noon Saturday, and the Alumni Association will be handing out clappers for the baseball game as well as information on the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage alumni and friends to come out and enjoy the weekend that is packed full of activities including a kids zone, live music, a cooking competition, Spring Visit Day and baseball and softball games,\u201d said Farris.<\/p>\n<p>Crustacean\u2019s Crawfish, Domino\u2019s, South Style Snow Cones and Aramark Concessions will be selling food throughout the day Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The second annual jambalaya cooking competition sponsored by the Alumni Association will also take place through Saturday with the announcement of winners at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday at 9 p.m., live entertainment will be provided by Patty and the Mayonnaise in Statesmen Park. For a full schedule of events for the entire weekend, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/gogreenweekend\">www.deltastate.edu\/gogreenweekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deltastateuniversityalumni\">Statesmen Graduates<\/a>), Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DSU_Alumni\">@DSU_Alumni<\/a>), Tumblr (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com<\/a>), LinkedIn (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/DSU-Alumni-84668\/about\">DSU alumni<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/dsualumni\">dsualumni<\/a>) and You Tube (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DSUalumni1\">dsualumni1<\/a>).Save the date for next year\u2019s Pig Pickin\u2019 (September 19, 2015) and Homecoming (November 7, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Alumni Association will participate in Delta State\u2019s upcoming event Go Green Weekend March 27-29. Director of the Alumni Association Jeffrey Farris said tailgating will begin at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":63167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,418,296,2,246],"tags":[1408,472],"class_list":["post-63166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-community-3","category-facultystaff","category-general","category-students","tag-alumni","tag-go-green-weekend"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63166","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63169,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63166\/revisions\/63169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}