{"id":9359,"date":"2019-12-05T11:53:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2019-12-05T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:05:36","slug":"kq2-missouri-western-adds-esports-program-begins-fall-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/05\/kq2-missouri-western-adds-esports-program-begins-fall-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"KQ2: Missouri Western adds esports program, begins fall 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/media.heartlandtv.com\/images\/ESPORTS.jpg\" alt=\"video gamer\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Chris Roush, KQ2, Dec. 4, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.)\u2014\u00a0Missouri Western State University is adding a new program for students that love to play video games. The University is adding Esports in the fall of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an environment that I think a lot of universities want to get into, but not sure how to get into,&#8221; Missouri Western president Matthew Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and see the video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/content\/sports-stories\/Missouri-Western-adds-Esports-program-begins-Fall-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">kq2.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Roush, KQ2, Dec. 4, 2019 (ST. JOSEPH, Mo.)\u2014\u00a0Missouri Western State University is adding a new program for students that love to play video games. The University is adding Esports in the fall of 2020. &#8220;It&#8217;s an environment that I think a lot of universities want to get into, but not sure how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1037,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9365,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}