{"id":7066,"date":"2022-03-24T13:21:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7066"},"modified":"2022-03-24T13:21:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:21:36","slug":"rebuilding-in-the-bootheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2022\/03\/24\/rebuilding-in-the-bootheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding in the Bootheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220324_125522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220324_125522-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi talking to volunteers in Gobler, Missouri.\" class=\"wp-image-7070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220324_125522-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220324_125522-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220324_125522-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220324_125522.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Choi addressing volunteers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Today I traveled to Gobler, a town near the center of Missouri\u2019s Bootheel to thank those who assisted after an EF4 tornado struck the area in December. &nbsp;Governor Parson, federal, state and local officials, as well as members of our MU community, joined me.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In addition to celebrating first responders and the many resilient residents of southeast Missouri, I was also proud to acknowledge the work of MU\u2019s Fisher Delta Research, Extension and Education Center (FD-REEC). With research locations throughout the region, FD-REEC staff were well-positioned to remove debris and provide support in the days and weeks after the storm.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Service is at the core of our university, and it drives our outreach throughout the state. I\u2019m honored MU could join local and state partners to help when it was most needed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I traveled to Gobler, a town near the center of Missouri\u2019s Bootheel to thank those who assisted after an EF4 tornado struck the area in December. &nbsp;Governor Parson, federal, state and local officials, as well as members of our MU community, joined me.&nbsp; In addition to celebrating first responders and the many resilient residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}