{"id":70256,"date":"2016-05-02T19:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70256"},"modified":"2016-05-22T19:16:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:16:33","slug":"odoms-completes-senate-internship-with-cochran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/05\/odoms-completes-senate-internship-with-cochran\/","title":{"rendered":"Odoms completes Senate internship with Cochran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) recently commended Zack Odoms, a senior at Delta State University, for successfully completing a semester-long internship in his Washington, D.C. office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI appreciate the good assistance that Zack provided my office this semester, and hope that his experience on Capitol Hill will serve him well in the future,\u201d said Cochran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Odoms is a biology major and enlisted in the Mississippi Army National Guard. He served in Washington as the 2016 Congressional Fellow sponsored by Delta State, the Delta Council and the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. He is the son of Clifford Odoms of Jackson and Janretta Odoms of Crystal Springs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During his internship, which began in January, Odoms assisted Cochran\u2019s staff in different capacities, including constituent service, correspondence and tracking veterans\u2019 health and defense issues.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Cochran internship program is designed to give young Mississippi students a first-hand opportunity to experience the federal legislative process and the operation of a U.S. Senate office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) recently commended Zack Odoms, a senior at Delta State University, for successfully completing a semester-long internship in his Washington, D.C. office. \u201cI appreciate the good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":70257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[998,1540],"class_list":["post-70256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-students","tag-thad-cochran","tag-u-s-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70256","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=70256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70259,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70256\/revisions\/70259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}