{"id":1772,"date":"2020-02-20T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2020-02-20T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:28:48","slug":"politics-and-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/politics-and-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HED-2020-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HED-2020-10.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HED-2020-10-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HED-2020-10-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HED-2020-10-500x329.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Former Trojans, Oklahoma State Senator Darcy Jech of Kingfisher (left) and SSC Board Chair Curtis Morgan (right) visit with their coach Lloyd Simmons (center) during a Higher Ed Day luncheon last week in Oklahoma City.\u00a0 Senator Jech played baseball for then Seminole Junior College the first year that Simmons coached the Trojans.\u00a0 Morgan was on Simmons&#8217; NJCAA World Series teams in 1980 and 1981, when he received the National MVP award and the Trojans finished as runner-up.\u00a0 The trio were part of a delegation of Seminole State College community and campus leaders showing Legislators grassroots support for Higher Education funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trojans, Oklahoma State Senator Darcy Jech of Kingfisher (left) and SSC Board Chair Curtis Morgan (right) visit with their coach Lloyd Simmons (center) during a Higher Ed Day luncheon last week in Oklahoma City.\u00a0 Senator Jech played baseball for then Seminole Junior College the first year that Simmons coached the Trojans.\u00a0 Morgan was on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/politics-and-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics and Baseball<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-board-of-regents","tag-february-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","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=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}