{"id":9732,"date":"2020-04-22T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:01:03","slug":"news-press-now-link-leaving-missouri-veterans-commission-for-federal-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/22\/news-press-now-link-leaving-missouri-veterans-commission-for-federal-job\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Link leaving Missouri Veterans Commission for federal job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/0\/d7\/0d7839ba-ad9c-5000-99e4-3fcaac954716\/5ae21db9c2f7d.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C1499\" alt=\"grace link\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1499\" \/>A woman with St. Joseph ties is stepping down as the executive director of the Missouri Veterans Commission for a new role at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Veterans commissioners accepted Col. Grace Link\u2019s resignation, which is effective May 31, during an executive session meeting on Tuesday night and appointed Missouri Veterans Commission Deputy Director Ryon Richmond as the interim executive director effective June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Link graduated from Missouri Western State University with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in engineering technology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/link-leaving-missouri-veterans-commission-for-federal-job\/article_1d3bc612-84ea-11ea-8f1f-13f0424fb1b2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman with St. Joseph ties is stepping down as the executive director of the Missouri Veterans Commission for a new role at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans commissioners accepted Col. Grace Link\u2019s resignation, which is effective May 31, during an executive session meeting on Tuesday night and appointed Missouri Veterans Commission Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,31,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732"}],"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=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9733,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}