{"id":18943,"date":"2020-02-18T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=18943"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:25:33","slug":"former-soccer-star-visits-melrose-elementary-school-to-train-and-teach-students-about-positive-character-traits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=18943","title":{"rendered":"Former soccer star visits Melrose Elementary School to train and teach students about positive character traits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the school year, Melrose Elementary School has enjoyed working closely with Pure Game, a soccer program that visits campus once a week during recess to work on soccer skills with students. Beyond soccer skills, the program also works to infuse character traits such as grit, teamwork, self control, and sportsmanship with the Marlins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18945 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Melrose-Elementary-Joy-Fawcett-Visit-2-14-2020-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Joy Fawcett with Melrose Elementary School students.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Melrose-Elementary-Joy-Fawcett-Visit-2-14-2020-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Melrose-Elementary-Joy-Fawcett-Visit-2-14-2020-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Melrose-Elementary-Joy-Fawcett-Visit-2-14-2020-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Melrose-Elementary-Joy-Fawcett-Visit-2-14-2020-1.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Then during the week of February 10,\u00a0Melrose was delighted to host special guest Joy Fawcett, 1999 World Cup Women\u2019s Soccer Team Champion.\u00a0Fawcett, who is the highest scoring defender and has been inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame, spent her time training with the students that morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you, Pure Game, for bringing Mrs. Fawcett to Melrose to share her knowledge of the game and how important good character is in life!&#8221; Principal Nicole Hernandez shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the school year, Melrose Elementary School has enjoyed working closely with Pure Game, a soccer program that visits campus once a week during recess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[1753,1752,117],"class_list":["post-18943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-marlins","tag-melrose","tag-melrose-elementary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}