{"id":502,"date":"2010-03-04T07:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-03-04T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:16:22","slug":"grandville-symphony-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Grandville Symphony Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hear enough bad things about failing schools and wasted public funds &#8212; how about a success story? I submit to you the orchestra program at Grandville Public Schools. Check out these YouTube links that my friend Jim Wildgen posted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-qhF5DMFyS4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-qhF5DMFyS4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s4mV3S4A900\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s4mV3S4A900<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zO7GencAkrI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zO7GencAkrI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are high school kids from a middle class school system. The three selections are from a recent concert, which was actually only a tune-up ahead of their annual competition. You don&#8217;t have to be a classical music fan to appreciate how extraordinary it is for a group this size to work together so well. It&#8217;s amazing to me. (Full disclosure: That alabaster cellist in the first chair is my daughter Elisira.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear enough bad things about failing schools and wasted public funds &#8212; how about a success story? I submit to you the orchestra program at Grandville Public Schools. Check out these YouTube links that my friend Jim Wildgen posted: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-qhF5DMFyS4 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s4mV3S4A900 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zO7GencAkrI These are high school kids from a middle class school system. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}