{"id":86021,"date":"2020-02-20T13:09:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=86021"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:09:02","slug":"delta-state-university-announces-2020-dates-for-pig-pickin-oct-3-and-homecoming-nov-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2020\/02\/delta-state-university-announces-2020-dates-for-pig-pickin-oct-3-and-homecoming-nov-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State University Announces 2020 Dates for Pig Pickin\u2019, Oct. 3, and Homecoming, Nov. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pig Pickin\u2019: Oct. 3, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>35<sup>th<\/sup> annual event<\/li>\n<li>Football vs University of West Florida<\/li>\n<li>4<sup>th<\/sup> annual Memphis BBQ Network sanctioned cooking competition<\/li>\n<li>Tailgating, live entertainment, visiting with alumni and friend<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsupigpickin.com\/\">http:\/\/www.dsupigpickin.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Homecoming: Nov. 14, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>88<sup>th<\/sup> annual event<\/li>\n<li>Football vs Mississippi College<\/li>\n<li>Several activities throughout the weekend with current students, faculty, staff, and alumni<\/li>\n<li>Class of 1970 to celebrate their 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary at the Alumni Gala on Nov. 13; Alumni Association to recognize the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year, Alumni Hall of Fame, and other service awards that evening <!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to announce the dates of our campus&#8217; largest events in which our alumni can come back, enjoy, relax, and have fun with old and new friends,\u201d said James Forte, interim alumni director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pig Pickin\u2019: Oct. 3, 2020 35th annual event Football vs University of West Florida 4th annual Memphis BBQ Network sanctioned cooking competition Tailgating, live entertainment, visiting with alumni and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":86022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,418,2,1912],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-community-3","category-general","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86021","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=86021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86027,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86021\/revisions\/86027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}