{"id":1812,"date":"2017-06-12T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2017-06-12T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:33:05","slug":"historical-marker-for-ashburn-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Historical marker for Ashburn School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/101-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1813\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/101-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/101-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/101-1-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/101-1-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/101-1-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Less than nine months after vandals defaced the Ashburn Colored School by spray-painting it with racist graffiti, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-seventh-graders-obtain-historical-marker-for-ashburn-colored-school\/2017\/06\/09\/ee6bc080-4d1a-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.2b40bbd4f0c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Virginia historical marker has been installed<\/a> near the front entrance of the gleaming white building.<\/p>\n<p>The marker came about through the efforts of a group of seventh-grade students at Farmwell Station Middle School who selected it as a project for their social studies class in the fall. They cleared hurdles at local and state levels to obtain grant funding for the marker and win approval from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, which installed the marker Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-seventh-graders-obtain-historical-marker-for-ashburn-colored-school\/2017\/06\/09\/ee6bc080-4d1a-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.2b40bbd4f0c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, June 11, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than nine months after vandals defaced the Ashburn Colored School by spray-painting it with racist graffiti, a Virginia historical marker has been installed near the front entrance of the gleaming white building. The marker came about through the efforts of a group of seventh-grade students at Farmwell Station Middle School who selected it as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Historical marker for Ashburn School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,107,10,3,6],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-ashburn","tag-education","tag-history","tag-loudoun-county","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}