{"id":2833,"date":"2017-01-24T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2017-01-24T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:17:41","slug":"mphs-debate-coach-earns-national-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-debate-coach-earns-national-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Debate Coach Earns National Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Morris, Mt. Pleasant High School Speech and Debate coach, has been awarded the National Speech and Debate Association\u2019s Distinguished Service Key.<\/p>\n<p>Morris earned the Key because of his 20 citations reflecting, according to the Association\u2019s Executive Director J. Scott Wunn,\u00a0 \u201can outstanding commitment to the service of others\u201d and the betterment of the Speech and Debate community.<\/p>\n<p>Bruno E. Jacob, founder of the National Speech and Debate Association, initiated the Distinguished Service Key in 1925.\u00a0 Since that time only 363 coaches have earned this honor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCody joined the district in the fall of 2013,\u201d said Dr. Judi Saxton, MPISD\u2019s Director of Communication. \u201cSince that time he has revitalized the high school debate program. He even recruited two seventh graders to participate in the program, with great success. He is certainly deserving of this honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Cody Morris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Morris, Mt. Pleasant High School Speech and Debate coach, has been awarded the National Speech and Debate Association\u2019s Distinguished Service Key. Morris earned the Key because of his 20 citations reflecting, according to the Association\u2019s Executive Director J. Scott Wunn,\u00a0 \u201can outstanding commitment to the service of others\u201d and the betterment of the Speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}