{"id":82,"date":"2022-01-31T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/?p=82"},"modified":"2022-01-31T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:14:39","slug":"purpose-of-polar-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/2022\/01\/31\/purpose-of-polar-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose of Polar Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Sarah Mallah<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polar Express is a writing club where members work to&nbsp; report about special events, sports news and many more things happening at Lowrey School. The advisors are Mrs. Wiedyke, and Ms. McCarthy who are both Lowrey teachers.&nbsp; Mrs. Wiedyke runs most of the meetings, and Ms. McCarthy takes care of the technical items and difficulties with the Blog Site. &nbsp; Wiedyke said that Polar Express is to help by enriching the school community and to also allow members to have a voice and practice writing. Currently, Polar Express has approximately 10 staff members.&nbsp; Covid cases have made regular meetings with the whole staff difficult-&nbsp; but all of the writers are working hard to share important news at Lowrey.&nbsp; Sixth grade writer Ishl Wasfy said she joined the student newspaper because she loves writing.&nbsp; Seventh grader writer Fatima Mtierek said she wants to be part of something that allows others to know about the great things happening at Lowrey.&nbsp; The staff looks forward to readers logging in and seeing their hard work and diverse articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Mallah Polar Express is a writing club where members work to&nbsp; report about special events, sports news and many more things happening at Lowrey School. The advisors are Mrs. Wiedyke, and Ms. McCarthy who are both Lowrey teachers.&nbsp; Mrs. Wiedyke runs most of the meetings, and Ms. McCarthy takes care of the technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/polarexpresslowrey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}