Trouble With Returning Results From MySql?

Edit: I solved my problem but if you have anything to add do. Note: I did not create the DB it was created by Wordpress hosted on GoDaddy with my site I have a MySql Database called "wordpress" (for clarity). I want to be able to grab the most recent post from my blog and show it on the landing page for my url.
So my thought is this: connect to the MySql DB, run a query to grab the most recent post, display the post.

I built a class to handle the connection and process the request:

public class DAL
{
private string connectionString = "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver}; SERVER=[server here]; PORT=[port]; DATABASE=wordpress;
USER=[user name here]; PASSWORD=[password here];";
private OdbcConnection blogConnection;

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