{"id":68207,"date":"2015-11-05T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=68207"},"modified":"2015-11-05T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:25:10","slug":"merryday-honored-as-humanities-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/11\/merryday-honored-as-humanities-teacher-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Merryday honored as Humanities Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Mississippi Humanities Council celebrates each October by awarding one humanities faculty member at each state institution with the Humanities Teacher Award. This year, from Delta State University\u2019s Department of Art, Dr. Michaela Merryday was selected by faculty for the award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Merryday accepted the award Monday\u00a0in Holcombe-Norwood Hall, where she also\u00a0presented on her publication \u201cWestward Route 66 Takes Its Way: Ed Ruscha and the Promised Land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merryday\u00a0completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and earned a doctorate in art history from Florida State University. Her research also focuses on contemporary public and political art practices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi Humanities Council celebrates each October by awarding one humanities faculty member at each state institution with the Humanities Teacher Award. This year, from Delta State University\u2019s Department of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":68208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[96,40,1449],"class_list":["post-68207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-department-of-art","tag-faculty","tag-mississippi-humanties-council"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68207","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=68207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68210,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68207\/revisions\/68210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}