{"id":11321,"date":"2018-10-11T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=11321"},"modified":"2021-02-03T08:45:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:45:54","slug":"meet-junior-jd-ogden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/meet-junior-jd-ogden\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet JD Ogden &#8217;20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-11322 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/JDWP-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"MPA Upper School student with younger brother\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>What do you love about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nI love that I get individual feedback from my teachers on assignments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How are you encouraged to dream big and do right?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I see classmates working hard and challenging themselves around me, it makes me aspire to be my best self.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have attended another school, how has your experience at MPA been different? <\/strong><br \/>\nI came to MPA in kindergarten, so I don&#8217;t recall exactly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell a family considering MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a great community and I know everyone so well. For example, on the Deep Portage overnight trip last year, our grade got to know each other even better. There was a moment when we were in groups and I had new students that I didn\u2019t know as well in mine, plus some teachers that our grade was just getting to know, yet everyone was themselves with each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In what ways has MPA prepared you for life?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt has taught me so many life lessons around how to be an ethical person. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you dream for yourself in 20 years?<\/strong><br \/>\nAt age 36, I\u2019d like to be playing professional baseball and raising a family. After that, I\u2019d like to have a good friend group and still be interested in lifelong learning in whatever I do.<\/p>\n<p><em>JD is pictured with his younger brother during a pairing activity. The older students were showing the younger students how to make icicles in the chemistry lab.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>JD now attends Columbia University in New York City where he is on the baseball team.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you love about MPA? I love that I get individual feedback from my teachers on assignments. How are you encouraged to dream big and do right? When I see classmates working hard and challenging themselves around me, it makes me aspire to be my best self. If you have attended another school, how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,27,10025,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-my-mpa-experience","category-student-experience","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19059,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321\/revisions\/19059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}