{"id":24687,"date":"2023-12-14T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=24687"},"modified":"2023-12-14T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:12:51","slug":"parents-association-news-and-events-december-14-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2023\/12\/14\/parents-association-news-and-events-december-14-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Association News and Events December 14, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24696 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PAInStory-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Thank You!<\/strong><br \/>\nThank you to all MPA community members who volunteered to wrap gifts for MPA staff on December 11. This is a beloved tradition at MPA where volunteers wrap the personal gifts of MPA Faculty and Staff, giving them the gift of time during the Holiday season. This Monday, we wrapped 229 gifts for 25 staff members! We took 0 lunch breaks and had 0 reported paper cuts. It was quite a day! Thank you again from Tara and the MPA PA!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Festival Success<\/strong><br \/>\nLast week, during the 2023 Book Festival, the MPA community celebrated our love of literature in a big way! We raised money for the library, supported student literacy, and discussed so many wonderful books with each other. Thank you to our community for participating in this effort, and we would like to extend a huge thank you to our amazing volunteers who helped make the MPA Book Festival a success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Hudson&#8217;s Book Club<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>February 12 at 6 PM<\/strong><br \/>\nOne more announcement for our parent readers! Dr. Hudson\u2019s Book Club will return to the MPA Library on February 12 at 6 PM. We will be reading The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James Baldwin. Childcare will be provided. Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/QrzFNfiH5eAY98MY9\">here<\/a> to get your copy of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank You! Thank you to all MPA community members who volunteered to wrap gifts for MPA staff on December 11. This is a beloved tradition at MPA where volunteers wrap the personal gifts of MPA Faculty and Staff, giving them the gift of time during the Holiday season. This Monday, we wrapped 229 gifts for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,9,12,18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-parents-association","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24687","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=24687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24697,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24687\/revisions\/24697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}