{"id":1959,"date":"2019-10-18T21:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2019-10-18T21:29:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T21:29:42","slug":"friday-night-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2019\/10\/18\/friday-night-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>By Zoe Wang (IV)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s annual PSPA Friday Night Lights took place on September 27, as hundreds of students, families, and faculty from the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools came together to support the Big Blue\u2019s football team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening began with the community gathered around the tent to enjoy pizza, pasta, and mozzarella sticks while keeping warm with hot chocolate and apple cider. Along with the food and drinks, teddy bears of a variety of colors were handed out to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the team lost 34-0 to Long Island Lutheran, the energy from the stands was unbeatable. \u201cDespite the loss, I really enjoyed FNL, and the enthusiasm of the crowd was great,\u201d Katherine Xie (IV) said. Form VI students were especially energized, cheering on their fellow seniors with large cardboard cutouts of the players. They also started chants for the crowd to follow.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Blue may have lost this game, but the spirit from the community was never diminished.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zoe Wang (IV) This year\u2019s annual PSPA Friday Night Lights took place on September 27, as hundreds of students, families, and faculty from the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools came together to support the Big Blue\u2019s football team.&nbsp; The evening began with the community gathered around the tent to enjoy pizza, pasta, and mozzarella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[63,10],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news","tag-friday-night-lights","tag-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}