{"id":644,"date":"2012-02-24T15:13:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/?p=644"},"modified":"2014-08-04T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T22:18:13","slug":"the-word-is-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/the-word-is-spreading\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WORD IS SPREADING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/files\/2012\/03\/kat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-647 alignright\" title=\"kat\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/files\/2012\/03\/kat.jpg\" alt=\"Kat works on a poem.\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a great semester for the Writing In The Schools project. Although we&#8217;re mostly proud of packing in more students for our after-school Exclusive Ink group and witnessing the amazing strides they seem to make each week, we&#8217;re also appreciative of the recent publicity that our program has received.<\/p>\n<p>In the past month alone, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/absolutenm\/templates\/?a=3374&amp;z=153\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> highlighting our Jefferson Award graced the front page of the Butler University website, the <em>Butler Collegian<\/em> published a <a href=\"http:\/\/thebutlercollegian.com\/2012\/02\/writers-engaging-writers\/\" target=\"_blank\">feature<\/a> about the development of Writing In The Schools, and the <em>Shortridge Daily Echo<\/em> stopped by our room for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortridgedailyecho.com\/top-stories\/2012\/02\/07\/817\/\" target=\"_blank\">Q and A<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although we&#8217;re not in it for the attention, seeing the word spread about our program helps to validate the efforts of our dedicated volunteers, who have made Writing In The Schools a force to be reckoned with. Also, we never get tired of talking about how awesome the Shortridge students are. It&#8217;s great that people outside of the school are starting to take note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a great semester for the Writing In The Schools project. Although we&#8217;re mostly proud of packing in more students for our after-school Exclusive Ink group and witnessing the amazing strides they seem to make each week, we&#8217;re also appreciative of the recent publicity that our program has received. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37039],"tags":[],"coauthors":[265091],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}