{"id":1013,"date":"2012-04-01T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2012-04-01T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T17:23:54","slug":"allentown-school-district-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2012\/04\/01\/allentown-school-district-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown School District Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/04\/High-Notes-206-x-181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2012\/04\/High-Notes-206-x-181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>After the week-long <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2012\/03\/21\/icms-isoperimetric-problems-19-23-march-2012-edinburgh\/\">soap bubble conference in Scotland<\/a>, I spent the rest of spring break in my hometown, visiting my mom and enjoying the arrival of spring, exemplified by the pink blossoms of the cherry trees. We attended a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/High-Notes-Gala-celebrates-theater-in-Allentown\/-\/121458\/9232806\/-\/gvej0yz\/-\/index.html\">fundraising dinner<\/a>\u00a0by the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allentownsd.org\/Domain\/1229\">Allentown School District Foundation<\/a>, with excerpts from school spring musicals. They sponsor all kinds of creative programming in the schools. Their greatest current need is funding for a director.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always hard to leave. On the way back to Williams I wrote the following poem:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->While traveling up and down along the coast<br \/>\nOn unfamiliar roadways, and alone,<br \/>\nI have no comfort, nor familiar friend<br \/>\nTo take my hand or greet me with a smile,<br \/>\nExcept the cherry trees along my path,<br \/>\nThat whisper, &#8220;We&#8217;ve been long expecting you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the week-long soap bubble conference in Scotland, I spent the rest of spring break in my hometown, visiting my mom and enjoying the arrival of spring, exemplified by the pink blossoms of the cherry trees. We attended a fundraising dinner\u00a0by the new Allentown School District Foundation, with excerpts from school spring musicals. They sponsor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}