{"id":68702,"date":"2016-01-04T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=68702"},"modified":"2016-01-04T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:42:37","slug":"make-your-plans-for-2016-pig-pickin-and-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/01\/make-your-plans-for-2016-pig-pickin-and-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your plans for 2016 Pig Pickin&#8217; and Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Delta State University National Alumni Association recently announced dates for 2016 Pig Pickin&#8217; and Homecoming &#8211;\u00a0two of the largest events held on campus.\u00a0The 31st\u00a0annual Pig Pickin&#8217; will be held\u00a0Sept. 23-24, 2016, when the Statesmen football team hosts Shorter University. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001Nc5uW8pL60Wn38muUQsylIkEYUmQqgi5SXKzYFPNhPwojLjj_Fcr8sk83XXGj-1O8ErFrq0rTpIXvUUuALsWWtsu_u7gTxodFWNTFmahvkFVdaTFrqAPgD0WApVSig4-CoyVf-jVldqPq11wQQLOwyiklTwGuml9uHFhnl6QdGo=&amp;c=HNMFP99XDNhwiSdFMqsURwCsbQo4q5BP4ZVRCIQKZp17pUQoQyrdUQ==&amp;ch=81a4GuFYVfviVfaD1ZxQ6-jUbxSjez3mN-5NOVEp_cBedAPu70Sz3A==\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">www.dsupigpickin.com<\/a>.\u00a0Homecoming has been set for Oct.\u00a014-15, 2016, and the Statesmen will face off against the University of West Florida. For more information, contact the Alumni Association at (662) 846-4660. To stay up to date on the Alumni Association&#8217;s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (Statesmen Graduates), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni), Tumblr (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com\/\">www.dsualumni.tumblr.com<\/a>), LinkedIn (DSU alumni), Instagram (dsualumni) and You Tube (dsualumni1).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To view the 2016 Statesmen Football Schedule,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001Nc5uW8pL60Wn38muUQsylIkEYUmQqgi5SXKzYFPNhPwojLjj_Fcr8vPBSwZM8OPx75zwwluQFxFGdYasT8k_X6rBIr-Vvz3t2r5DhyNTcgqLcJ0k6uAnKZce4_NuEzuhCbBhIFcnz2cyEZxtqVNNtsPI8-4NO8Bcky8Y2ZQAPMUVCuN0ins7gaKAbY3l_pFs28wLkpIfgDSORHRN116LyXcwmqkUnTKE&amp;c=HNMFP99XDNhwiSdFMqsURwCsbQo4q5BP4ZVRCIQKZp17pUQoQyrdUQ==&amp;ch=81a4GuFYVfviVfaD1ZxQ6-jUbxSjez3mN-5NOVEp_cBedAPu70Sz3A==\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">click here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University National Alumni Association recently announced dates for 2016 Pig Pickin&#8217; and Homecoming &#8211;\u00a0two of the largest events held on campus.\u00a0The 31st\u00a0annual Pig Pickin&#8217; will be held\u00a0Sept&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":68703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1470,1408,1120,1422,104,10],"class_list":["post-68702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","tag-1470","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-event","tag-foundation","tag-homecoming","tag-pig-pickin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68702","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\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68707,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68702\/revisions\/68707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}