{"id":1592,"date":"2015-04-27T14:17:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T18:18:03","slug":"this-weeks-blog-ideas-write-an-editorial-enter-the-nyfound-poem-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Blog Ideas:  Write an Editorial; Enter the NYT Found Poem Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s blog ideas are inspired by current events, and by <em>The Learning Center, <\/em>a <em>New York Times <\/em>blog.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Write Your Own Editorial<\/p>\n<p>Do you have an opinion about something?\u00a0 An editorial is a short piece of writing that expresses an opinion, supported by facts, and uses clear, direct language to persuade.\u00a0 Follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/opinion\/100000002691088\/how-to-write-an-editorial.html\">link<\/a> to see what I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read examples of winning student editorials <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/15\/writing-for-change-student-winners-from-our-second-annual-editorial-contest\/\">here<\/a>, and write one of your own.\u00a0 VAST will recognize strong editorials with a prize!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Enter the Found Poem Challenge!<\/p>\n<p>Post a Found Poem to the comments section of <em>The Learning Center, <\/em>and be sure to post a copy of it here, too.\u00a0 All you need to know is <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/?s=found+poem+challenge\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s blog ideas are inspired by current events, and by The Learning Center, a New York Times blog. 1.\u00a0 Write Your Own Editorial Do you have an opinion about something?\u00a0 An editorial is a short piece of writing that expresses an opinion, supported by facts, and uses clear, direct language to persuade.\u00a0 Follow this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}