{"id":9757,"date":"2018-03-06T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=9757"},"modified":"2018-03-06T12:59:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T18:59:34","slug":"this-is-why-i-give-how-about-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2018\/03\/06\/this-is-why-i-give-how-about-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why I Give. How About You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-8997 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BanderWP-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Coach with students\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><em>by Nate Bander &#8217;09<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I give back because MPA gave me a lifelong community. I remember returning to campus for the first time after I graduated, at the Alumni Basketball Tournament when I was freshman in college, and realizing right then and there as I walked into and was greeted by friends, and former teammates and coaches, that MPA was worth supporting with whatever I had to contribute.<\/p>\n<p><em>Every Panther can make a gift of any amount during today\u2019s Alumni Challenge!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/donate\">moundsparkacademy.org\/donate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"socialButtonOnPage\" class=\"leftSocialButtonOnPage\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nate Bander &#8217;09 I give back because MPA gave me a lifelong community. I remember returning to campus for the first time after I graduated, at the Alumni Basketball Tournament when I was freshman in college, and realizing right then and there as I walked into and was greeted by friends, and former teammates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24,29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757","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=9757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9766,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions\/9766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}