{"id":11,"date":"2012-03-01T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2012\/03\/01\/the-phantom-tollbooth-a-perfect-synergy\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:07:00","slug":"the-phantom-tollbooth-a-perfect-synergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2012\/03\/01\/the-phantom-tollbooth-a-perfect-synergy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phantom Tollbooth: A Perfect Synergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/info.williston.com\/Portals\/16020\/images\/6774726154_7640c6e4de_o.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"6774726154 7640c6e4de o\" class=\"alignRight\" style=\"float: right\" \/>The Phantom Tollbooth<\/em> celebrated its 50th anniversary this year&mdash;a celebration that has brought high praise for Amherst author Norton Juster.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Last week&rsquo;s Williston children&rsquo;s theater production also honored the classic work in an authentic way.&nbsp; In what has become an annual tradition, Williston&rsquo;s highly regarded theater program opened its doors to Easthampton children during their school break.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>What a perfect synergy when Williston students can both express their passion for drama and serve as role models to wide-eyed children. Theactors spent time with them after the show to answer their questions and even autograph their programs. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The program opened the eyes of young people to the imaginative possibilities of stage, set, and character&mdash;all the things that go into the transformative powers of drama. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>With a week&rsquo;s worth of performances, Williston students united passion with civic purpose. They gave something of themselves to the community and, in the process, made us all the better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phantom Tollbooth celebrated its 50th anniversary this year&mdash;a celebration that has brought high praise for Amherst author Norton Juster.&nbsp;Last week&rsquo;s Williston children&rsquo;s theater production also honored the classic work in an authentic way.&nbsp; In what has become an annual tradition, Williston&rsquo;s highly regarded theater program opened its doors to Easthampton children during their school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2012\/03\/01\/the-phantom-tollbooth-a-perfect-synergy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Phantom Tollbooth: A Perfect Synergy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}