{"id":38100,"date":"2013-05-02T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_mass-_principal_fires_security_guards_to_hire_art_teachers-and_transform\/"},"modified":"2013-05-02T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T15:30:16","slug":"a_mass-_principal_fires_security_guards_to_hire_art_teachers-and_transform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38100","title":{"rendered":"A Mass. Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers&#8211;and transforms anelementary school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The community of Roxbury had high hopes for its newest public school back in 2003. There were art studios, a dance room, even a theater equipped with cushy seating.<\/p>\n<p>A pilot school for grades K-8, Orchard Gardens was built on grand expectations.<\/p>\n<p>But the dream of a school founded in the arts, a school that would give back to the community as it bettered its children, never materialized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailynightly.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/05\/01\/18005192-principal-fires-security-guards-to-hire-art-teachers-and-transforms-elementary-school\">Read it all<\/a> (Video highly recommended).<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The community of Roxbury had high hopes for its newest public school back in 2003. There were art studios, a dance room, even a theater equipped with cushy seating. A pilot school for grades K-8, Orchard Gardens was built on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38100\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,130,101,111,132,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-art","category-children","category-education","category-music","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}