{"id":47043,"date":"2022-09-06T18:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=47043"},"modified":"2022-09-02T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:18:08","slug":"ag-commissioner-sid-miller-to-speak-at-tarleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/ag-commissioner-sid-miller-to-speak-at-tarleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag Commissioner Sid Miller to Speak at Tarleton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014&nbsp;State Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller will discuss career opportunities in public service and the impact of state and national policies on individual Texans when he visits&nbsp;Tarleton State University\u2019s Stephenville campus Tuesday, Sept. 13. A brief Q&amp;A session is included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event, at 7 p.m. in room 118 of the O.A. Grant Humanities Building (near South Lillian Street at West Washington Street), is open to the public. Seating is limited.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Political Science program is sponsoring the appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An eighth-generation farmer and rancher, Miller is the 12th Commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture. Born in De Leon in Comanche County, he graduated with honors from Tarleton with a bachelor of science degree in vocational agriculture education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 2000. He was elected Agriculture Commissioner in 2014 and re-elected in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, call 254-918-7609 or email GLSPAdmin@tarleton.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014&nbsp;State Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller will discuss career opportunities in public service and the impact of state and national policies on individual Texans when he visits&nbsp;Tarleton State University\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":47044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,423],"tags":[440],"class_list":["post-47043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","tag-college-of-liberal-fine-arts"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/09\/Sid-Miller_Thumb-300x199.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/homepage\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">_Homepage<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">_Homepage<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">College of Liberal &amp; Fine Arts<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">College of Liberal &amp; Fine Arts<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 6, 2022","modified":"Updated on September 2, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 6, 2022 6:15 pm","modified":"Updated on September 2, 2022 2:18 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Man in a white cowboy hat with a blue background.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}