{"id":81707,"date":"2018-10-22T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=81707"},"modified":"2018-10-22T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:31:30","slug":"fireside-chat-october-22-2018-trunk-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2018\/10\/fireside-chat-october-22-2018-trunk-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; October 22, 2018 &#8211; Trunk or Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Dana George, Senior Executive Associate athletic director for Compliance, Academics and Internal Operations\/SWA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eo9PC8mU8Hg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here are some delectable numbers about Halloween.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The No. 1 costume this year for kids? Princess. For adults? Witch.<\/li>\n<li>The average child consumes 3 cups or 384 grams of sugar on Halloween.<\/li>\n<li>The top 3 Halloween candies in the U.S. are Skittles, Reese\u2019s Peanut Butter Cups, and M&amp;M\u2019s.<\/li>\n<li>The most popular Halloween candy in Mississippi this year? 3 Musketeers, at 115,314 pounds.<\/li>\n<li>Shoppers will spend $9 billion cumulatively on candy, costumes, decorations, and cards this year, about $90 per person.<\/li>\n<li>The optimal time to carve a Halloween pumpkin is 5 days beforehand.<\/li>\n<li>14 athletic teams, consisting of more than 300 athletes and coaches, will host Delta State Athletics\u2019 annual Trunk or Treat event.<\/li>\n<li>The Trunk or Treat event will include 15-20 stations with games and activities<\/li>\n<li>The Athletics Departments expects to serve 1,000 guests at the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news on campus, Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., a cousin of Emmett Till, will share his memories of Emmett Till\u2019s life and legacy tonight at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Jobe Hall. As a reminder, the art department\u2019s annual faculty art exhibition continues at the Fielding Wright Art Center Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m., until October 25. In athletics news, Statesmen football is back at home on Thursday against Shorter University. The game kicks off at 6 p.m., and fans are encouraged to wear pink to this game in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Dana George, Senior Executive Associate athletic director for Compliance, Academics and Internal Operations\/SWA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707","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\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81754,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707\/revisions\/81754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}