{"id":67475,"date":"2015-09-16T09:56:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=67475"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:56:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:56:44","slug":"alumni-association-to-host-young-alumni-tailgate-at-pig-pickin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/09\/alumni-association-to-host-young-alumni-tailgate-at-pig-pickin\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Association to host young alumni tailgate at Pig Pickin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State Alumni Association will host a young alumni tailgating party Friday in conjunction with Pig Pickin\u2019 events. The event begins at\u00a08 p.m. in Statesmen Park. Food and libations will be served and entertainment will be provided by Patti and the Mayonnaise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs your Delta State young alumni representative, I personally would like to invite you back to campus this coming Friday, September 18th and Saturday, September 19th for our annual Pig Pickin&#8217;,\u201d said Parker Lipscomb, National Alumni Association Board young alumni representative. \u201cWe will have a special tent set up in Statesmen Park on Friday for young alumni. There will be live entertainment Friday evening, and as always, a great time to see many old friends and meet fellow alumni.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event is sponsored by Lipscomb Oil Company, Inc; The Filling Station; Exxon; Shell; and Baskin Robbins.<\/p>\n<p>Every young alumnus who visits\u00a0the Alumni Association tent\u00a0and\u00a0updates their contact information will receive a free BBQ ticket for Pig Pickin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The definition of a young alumnus is anyone 36 years old and younger.<\/p>\n<p>The official hashtag for Pig Pickin\u2019 is #DSUPigPickin. For more information, contact the Alumni Association at 662-846-4660. Join the Facebook event at Statesmen Graduates:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/872293072848213\/\"><strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/872293072848213\/<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (Statesmen Graduates), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni), Tumblr (www.dsualumni.tumblr.com), LinkedIn (DSU alumni), Instagram (dsualumni) and You Tube (dsualumni1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State Alumni Association will host a young alumni tailgating party Friday in conjunction with Pig Pickin\u2019 events. The event begins at\u00a08 p.m. in Statesmen Park. Food and libations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":67476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1408,10,1370],"class_list":["post-67475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","tag-alumni","tag-pig-pickin","tag-young-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475","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=67475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67477,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475\/revisions\/67477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}