{"id":1017,"date":"2019-01-18T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:50:11","slug":"mlk-event-is-a-success-at-ssc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/mlk-event-is-a-success-at-ssc\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK Event Is a Success at SSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Seminole State College hosted a special MLK program on campus featuring guest speaker Ashley Peden, Director of Corporate Communications for the Oklahoma City Thunder, on Jan. 16. <!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Peden Speaking to Students\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-788x443.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6322-1320x743.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a>Peden discussed the importance of setting clear goals and pursuing your dreams. She spoke about the difficulties of being a black female in a predominately male career field and how she had to work hard and focus on her goals to achieve the success and position she has today.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event was organized by\nthe Native American Serving Non-tribal Institutions Program in collaboration\nwith the SSC Belles Basketball Team and the Campus Activity Board. The event\nwas well attended by both SSC students and high school students from the\nsurrounding area.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Seminole State College hosted a special MLK program on campus featuring guest speaker Ashley Peden, Director of Corporate Communications for the Oklahoma City Thunder, on Jan. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37],"tags":[42,60],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-events","category-grant-programs","tag-grants","tag-january-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}