{"id":2683,"date":"2022-04-08T10:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:40:38","slug":"mount-pleasant-junior-high-band-earns-sweepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/2022\/04\/08\/mount-pleasant-junior-high-band-earns-sweepstakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Pleasant Junior High Band Earns Sweepstakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>For the first time in 25 years, the Mount Pleasant Junior High School Varsity Band earned a sweepstakes award at the UIL Concert and Sight Reading Contest held on April 1 at New Boston High School. The junior high Wind Ensemble played 3 pieces on stage including Wedgwood March by Owens, Sakura arranged by Story, and Conviction by Clark. They also had to sight read a piece they had never seen before. All three stage judges and all three sightreading judges gave the MPJH Wind Ensemble 1st division ratings for their performances. The stage and sight reading ratings gave them a Sweepstakes award for the 2022 year.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe are so proud of our band students and are blessed to be a part of their musical journey,\u201d said MPJH band director, Karen Luckett. \u201cWhen you see these students, congratulate them on this historical achievement.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>The MPJH Bands are directed by Karen Luckett and Alicia Hargett.<\/h3>\n<h3>Photo: The Sweepstakes award winning MPJH Wind Ensemble<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 25 years, the Mount Pleasant Junior High School Varsity Band earned a sweepstakes award at the UIL Concert and Sight Reading Contest held on April 1 at New Boston High School. The junior high Wind Ensemble played 3 pieces on stage including Wedgwood March by Owens, Sakura arranged by Story, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}