{"id":8234,"date":"2017-09-21T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2017-10-02T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:26:40","slug":"new-articles-published-freethinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2017\/09\/21\/new-articles-published-freethinker\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles Published In &#8220;Freethinker!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-8236 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FreethinkerWPstory-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Freethinker Logo\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>MPA&#8217;s new student-run school newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpafreethinker.org\"><em>Freethinker<\/em><\/a>\u00a0features\u00a0stories this week ranging from fostering friendships to nostalgic goodbyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Meacock \u2013 A Final Farewell&#8221; is one of the most recent stories published in MPA&#8217;s independent student newspaper, &#8220;Freethinker.&#8221;\u00a0The article is a heartfelt letter saying goodbye to former MPA Upper School English teacher Mr. Meacock, reminiscing about &#8220;the unplanned&#8221; days in his classroom and thanking him for encouraging students to &#8220;not only to be good academics, not only to constantly question and discuss, but also how to be good people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Story of Fried Food and Friendships: The Freshman State Fair Retreat\u201d illustrates the famous, massive, and historic Minnesota State Fair and the MPA Freshman school field trip to it. The story captures the importance of independence and building relationships, all while surrounded by meals\u00a0on a stick.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Head to the Athletics section to read \u201cKordo \u2013 A Final Farewell\u201d for another meaningful tribute to a retired member of the MPA community after 31 years. Athletic director Joe Kordosky created MPA sports teams and organizations, encouraged countless student athletes, and played a huge role in the event that tie sports and community together, like\u00a0Homecoming.<\/p>\n<p><em>Freethinker<\/em> was founded and is headed by MPA&#8217;s Entrepreneurial Club, a club dedicated to inspiring future\u00a0entrepreneurs to be socially conscious. The paper has evolved with the mission to provide the community with\u00a0accurate, interesting, and unique content while\u00a0students gain journalistic, marketing, organizational, and business experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPA&#8217;s new student-run school newspaper, Freethinker\u00a0features\u00a0stories this week ranging from fostering friendships to nostalgic goodbyes. &#8220;Mr. Meacock \u2013 A Final Farewell&#8221; is one of the most recent stories published in MPA&#8217;s independent student newspaper, &#8220;Freethinker.&#8221;\u00a0The article is a heartfelt letter saying goodbye to former MPA Upper School English teacher Mr. Meacock, reminiscing about &#8220;the unplanned&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","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=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8268,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions\/8268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}