{"id":7971,"date":"2012-04-25T21:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2012-04-25T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:33:18","slug":"st-rita-students-visit-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7971","title":{"rendered":"St. Rita Students Visit Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_7972\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaDCTrip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7972\" title=\"ritaDCTrip\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaDCTrip-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaDCTrip-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaDCTrip-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaDCTrip.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">St. Rita students pose in front of the White House during recent trip, photo courtesy of St. Rita School<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><em>\u00a0Press Release posted 4\/25\/12 &#8211;<\/em> Fourteen members\u00a0of the St. Rita eighth-grade class had a trip to remember over their recent Spring Break. They toured the nation\u2019s capital on a non-stop, 5-day itinerary that incorporated many of the D.C. area memorials with neighboring cities.<\/div>\n<p>The graduating students look forward to the annual trip, which provides them with the opportunity to spend a week together in our nation\u2019s capital. They were accompanied this year by nine chaperones and even caught a baseball game at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a fantastic time and I was so proud of how attentive and respectful our students were,\u201d said Ellen Hoffman, St. Rita teacher and chaperone. \u201c It was so exciting to experience places like Gettysburg, Arlington Nat\u2019l Cemetery, the Capitol building, Smithsonian and Mount Vernon with the kids!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St. Rita School, located at322 N. Baldwin Ave.in Sierra Madre, is a Catholic parish school, ranked fourth in the Los Angeles Diocese, with a focus on faith, stewardship and academic excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Rita students pose in front of the White House during recent trip, photo courtesy of St. Rita School \u00a0Press Release posted 4\/25\/12 &#8211; Fourteen members\u00a0of the St. Rita eighth-grade class had a trip to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,33,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}