{"id":1757,"date":"2013-01-29T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2013-01-29T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:49:12","slug":"willistons-we-the-people-heads-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/willistons-we-the-people-heads-to-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Williston&#8217;s We the People Heads to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/01\/133891_3797371552300_1460563558_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1764\" title=\"We the People team\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/01\/133891_3797371552300_1460563558_o-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/01\/133891_3797371552300_1460563558_o-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/01\/133891_3797371552300_1460563558_o-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/01\/133891_3797371552300_1460563558_o-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2013\/01\/133891_3797371552300_1460563558_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To say that the final scores in the <a href=\"http:\/\/new.civiced.org\/wtp-the-program\/hearings\/2012-13-state-finals\">We the People state competition<\/a> on Saturday were close is putting things mildly. With final scores in the 900-point range, there was a just a 12-point difference between the top two teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like being one point behind in a 90-point basketball game,&#8221; said Peter Gunn, faculty advisor for the school\u2019s We the People team. &#8220;That&#8217;s how close it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, January 26, <a title=\"Good Luck to We the People Team!\" href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/2013\/01\/25\/good-luck-to-we-the-people-team\/\">The Williston Northampton School team<\/a> placed second out of 19 schools\u2014just a dozen points behind the winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndatyngsboro.org\/\">Academy of Notre Dame<\/a>. The second place finish was good enough for the team to earn a wild card ticket to the national championships in Washington, DC in April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our young people made wonderful presentations,\u201d Gunn wrote in an email. \u201cThey eloquently defended and extended their ideas in the following discussions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To say that the final scores in the We the People state competition on Saturday were close is putting things mildly. With final scores in the 900-point range, there was a just a 12-point difference between the top two teams. &#8220;It&#8217;s like being one point behind in a 90-point basketball game,&#8221; said Peter Gunn, faculty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/willistons-we-the-people-heads-to-nationals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Williston&#8217;s We the People Heads to Nationals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1770,"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":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}