{"id":253,"date":"2007-05-19T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.southernarkansasuniversity.info\/2007\/05\/alumni\/mulerider-steak-cookers-earn-trophies-at-blossom-festival\/253\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T18:15:27","slug":"mulerider-steak-cookers-earn-trophies-at-blossom-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/2007\/mulerider-steak-cookers-earn-trophies-at-blossom-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulerider Steak Cookers earn trophies at Blossom Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Arkansas University Magnolia Blossom Festival team, the Mulerider Steak Cookers, earned two trophies Saturday, May 19, including First Place in the Showmanship Category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/07\/705-award.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1185387327]\" title=\"Blossom Festival Trophy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/07\/705-award-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Blossom Festival Trophy\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" align=\"left\" height=\"156\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, center, presents the First Place trophy in the Showmanship category to Jack Revell, left, and the Muleriders Steak Cookers mascot (Frank Byers), right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/07\/705-blossom-fest-perf1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1185387327]\" title=\"Blossom Festival Mascot\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/07\/705-blossom-fest-perf1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Blossom Festival Mascot\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" align=\"left\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Frank Byers dances with members of the SAU cheerleading squad in front of SAU&#8217;s booth Saturday at the Magnolia Blossom Festival. The performance earned First Place in the Showmanship competition.<\/p>\n<p>SAU\u2019s own Frank Byers, dressed as a Mulerider with a two-foot-tall papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 head, stole the show during the parade and later during showmanship judging. He danced with members of the SAU cheerleading squad around the Mule Train, which took fourth-runner-up in the parade float category.<\/p>\n<p>The SAU team built the engine of the train around a four wheeler and included a smoke stack, a bell mounted on the roof and SAU flags. The train car in tow was made to look as though it was carrying a load of lignite coal, as SAU has recently stepped forward to become a leader in lignite research for South Arkansas. Attached to the second car was the grill, which was covered in chalk graffiti.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/07\/705-blossom-fest-jack-w-steak.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1185387327]\" title=\"Blossom Festival Steak\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/07\/705-blossom-fest-jack-w-steak-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Blossom Festival Steak\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" align=\"left\" height=\"200\" width=\"133\" \/><\/a>Mulerider Steak Cooker Jack Revell proudly displays the team&#8217;s steak entry for the 18th Annual World Championshiop Steak Cookoff at the Magnolia Blossom Festival Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Arkansas University Magnolia Blossom Festival team, the Mulerider Steak Cookers, earned two trophies Saturday, May 19, including First Place in the Showmanship Category.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, center, presents the First Place trophy in the Showmanship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,276,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-community-corner","category-foundation","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}