{"id":82253,"date":"2018-12-14T08:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82253"},"modified":"2018-12-14T08:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:24:30","slug":"delta-state-alumnus-and-ups-head-david-abney-to-receive-2019-horatio-alger-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2018\/12\/delta-state-alumnus-and-ups-head-david-abney-to-receive-2019-horatio-alger-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State Alumnus and UPS Head David Abney to Receive 2019 Horatio Alger Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David Abney \u201976 and \u201915, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of United Parcel Service, has been selected for membership in the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization honoring the achievements of outstanding individuals and encouraging youth to pursue their dreams through higher education. <!--more-->He\u2019s one of 12 other exceptional business, civic, and cultural leaders from across North America to receive the honor for 2019. To read the press release, click <a href=\"https:\/\/horatioalger.org\/haa_news\/9864\/#__prclt=y9qidvjM\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David Abney \u201976 and \u201915, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of United Parcel Service, has been selected for membership in the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":82254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-foundation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82253","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\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82255,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82253\/revisions\/82255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}