{"id":101259,"date":"2018-02-18T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cms-eighth-graders-work-to-beautify-their-school\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:27:50","slug":"cms-eighth-graders-work-to-beautify-their-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cms-eighth-graders-work-to-beautify-their-school\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS eighth-graders work to beautify their school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:029ee26d-e86c-4742-8489-27e5f063632d --><\/p>\n<p>Lissa Lycan\u2019s eighth-grade language arts students at Cortez Middle School worked to beautify the school during the Feb. 9 school day.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lycan, every Friday, her students participate in exercises that teach them to be good citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The classes help clean up around the school or do projects, such as the fence weaving project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey weave these colors into the chain-link fences around the school to create designs and make them look a little nicer,\u201d Lycan said. \u201cThey have been planning this and designing it and picking up trash to raise funds from the PTO to fund it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designs included mountains, the state flag and a message that reads \u201cGo Jags,\u201d an homage to their school mascot.<\/p>\n<p>The designs face the highway outside the middle school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>project encourages collaboration, good citizenship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5794,5735],"tags":[246,21,147,13,216],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-arts-general","tag-cortez","tag-cortez-middle-school","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101259"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}