{"id":83881,"date":"2019-07-08T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=83881"},"modified":"2019-07-15T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:55:19","slug":"delta-state-alumnus-david-abney-head-of-ups-praises-alma-mater-in-atlanta-business-chronicle-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/07\/delta-state-alumnus-david-abney-head-of-ups-praises-alma-mater-in-atlanta-business-chronicle-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State Alumnus David Abney, Head of UPS, Praises Alma Mater in &#8220;Atlanta Business Chronicle&#8221; Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know the value of Delta State University. So does Dr. David Abney \u201976 and \u201915, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of United Parcel Service.<\/p>\n<p>In a July 4 feature in the <em>Atlanta Business Chronicle<\/em>, he reflects on Delta State, the International Business Symposium he founded 14 years ago at DSU, and his 45-year career at UPS\u2014a career he began in the Mississippi Delta to help pay his way through college.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/saportareport.com\/upss-dave-abney-reflects-on-my-version-of-the-american-dream\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know the value of Delta State University. So does Dr. David Abney \u201976 and \u201915, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of United Parcel Service. In a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":83883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-college-of-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83881","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=83881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83967,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83881\/revisions\/83967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}