{"id":45,"date":"2010-11-10T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2010\/11\/10\/three-cups-of-tea-and-barrels-of-wisdom\/"},"modified":"2010-11-10T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:01:00","slug":"three-cups-of-tea-and-barrels-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2010\/11\/10\/three-cups-of-tea-and-barrels-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Cups of Tea and Barrels of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Storytelling often gets lost in education, said Greg Mortenson, whose  compelling presence held over five hundred listeners spellbound at  Williston yesterday. Demonstrating the importance of stories in his own  life and in the work he does around the world, Mortenson offered a  snapshot of his life through slides and memorable vignettes of those  whose lives he has touched and who in turn have touched him.<\/p>\n<p>The climber turned humanitarian and bestselling author of <em>Three Cups of Tea <\/em>spent  time with Williston students before and after his lecture, moving  comfortably among tables of students from both the Middle and Upper  Schools during lunch.  Our students could not help but be affected by  his message of spreading world peace through education, one child at a  time.<\/p>\n<p>Following the presentation, Williston students worked throughout the  community doing service projects ranging from helping at local church  thrift shop to making toys for a childrens&rsquo; hospital.  Greg Mortenson&rsquo;s  presence was a powerful and moving testament to the effect an individual  can have on a global stage, begging the question: Which of our students  will achieve similar success?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/info.williston.com\/Portals\/16020\/images\/head_16.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"head 16\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storytelling often gets lost in education, said Greg Mortenson, whose compelling presence held over five hundred listeners spellbound at Williston yesterday. Demonstrating the importance of stories in his own life and in the work he does around the world, Mortenson offered a snapshot of his life through slides and memorable vignettes of those whose lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2010\/11\/10\/three-cups-of-tea-and-barrels-of-wisdom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Cups of Tea and Barrels of Wisdom<\/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-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}