{"id":24963,"date":"2024-02-22T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=24963"},"modified":"2024-02-22T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:15:06","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-michael-pappas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2024\/02\/22\/welcome-to-mpa-michael-pappas\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To MPA, Michael Pappas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24964 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MPwpstory.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Pappas\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Welcome to MPA, Michael! Michael joins us as the communications coordinator. We are so excited to introduce him to our community!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What school\/organization are you coming from?<\/strong><br \/>\nI previously worked for Adams Publishing Group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.<\/strong><br \/>\nI graduated from St. Cloud State University before heading to work for the Union-Times and County News Review as the sports editor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe school seemed like a very welcoming place for everybody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What lasting impact do you plan to have on MPA?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nI plan to help push MPA to make it even better than it currently is by helping in whatever way I can.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your big dream?<\/strong><br \/>\nTo excel in my career and find a place I can stay at for as long as I am working.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you (and your family, if you so choose) passionate about? <\/strong><br \/>\nMy wife and I are passionate about finding a place we can call our home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m an avid outdoorsman, and I\u2019ve climbed a mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to MPA, Michael! Michael joins us as the communications coordinator. We are so excited to introduce him to our community! What school\/organization are you coming from? I previously worked for Adams Publishing Group. Tell us about your education and past experience. I graduated from St. Cloud State University before heading to work for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10027,24,29,9,12,27,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-families","category-faculty-and-staff-experience","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-my-mpa-experience","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24963","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24966,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24963\/revisions\/24966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}