{"id":734,"date":"2008-04-02T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T11:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/04\/02\/delta-state-to-remember-the-life-of-molly-bates-today\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:46","slug":"delta-state-to-remember-the-life-of-molly-bates-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/04\/delta-state-to-remember-the-life-of-molly-bates-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to remember the life of Molly Bates today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/02Bates, Molly.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Delta<\/span><span> State University<\/span><span> will honor the life of Molly Bates, a sophomore swimmer on the Lady Statesmen Swimming and Diving team, Wednesday, April 2, at 8:00 p.m. in Wyatt Gymnasium. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>Bates&rsquo; life ended tragically late Saturday night after the vehicle she was traveling in crashed on US Highway 61 South.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bates, 19, was a beloved teammate and fierce competitor. Head coach Brian Hein described her as, &ldquo;full of energy and the type of person people gravitated towards. She was a pleasure to be around and she will be sincerely missed.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The memorial service will feature a slideshow presentation highlighting Bates&rsquo; life. Immediately following the service, a candlelight vigil will be held inside the Delta State Aquatics Center. The memorial services are open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University will honor the life of Molly Bates, a sophomore swimmer on the Lady Statesmen Swimming and Diving team, Wednesday, April 2, at 8:00 p.m. in Wyatt Gymnasium&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41886,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/41886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}