{"id":9779,"date":"2023-11-13T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:59:35","slug":"mount-pleasant-high-school-goin-gold-band-places-3rd-at-us-bands-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mount-pleasant-high-school-goin-gold-band-places-3rd-at-us-bands-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band Places 3rd at US Bands Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band bid farewell to their 2023 show, Wednesday, at the US Bands Southwestern Championship at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington on Monday, November 6. The competition featured 22 bands from Texas and Louisiana.<\/h4>\n<h4>After prelims, the Goin\u2019 Gold Band won their group by more than four points and went into finals as the 3rd seed, just .6 out of first place. They ultimately placed 3rd behind two 6A bands from the DFW metroplex. The Goin\u2019 Gold Band placed higher than three other 6A bands from San Antonio, Austin, and North Forney as well as multiple other 5A bands from metropolitan areas.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Goin\u2019 Gold Band finishes their 2023 competition season with two championships and their highest placement at area in over 30 years. They are under the direction of Dr. Theodus Luckett III and assisted by Jamey Sterrett, Brian Bass, Alicia Hargett, Karen Luckett, and Sheri Sullivan. The Colorguard is directed by Marty Newman and assisted by Peyton McClendon, Johnathan Tepetate, Victor Diaz, and China Paloblanco.<\/h4>\n<h4>Photos:<\/h4>\n<h4>1: The Goin\u2019 Gold Band starts their show, Wednesday, with the famous snaps from The Addams Family theme song<\/h4>\n<h4>2: (L to R) Seniors Orion Senence, Zoe Newman, and Shpat Zeqaj were featured soloists<\/h4>\n<h4>3: The Goin\u2019 Gold Band performs at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band bid farewell to their 2023 show, Wednesday, at the US Bands Southwestern Championship at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington on Monday, November 6. The competition featured 22 bands from Texas and Louisiana. After prelims, the Goin\u2019 Gold Band won their group by more than four points and went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9779","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\/9779","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=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}