{"id":3705,"date":"2016-03-22T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2016-03-22T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:10:10","slug":"travis-ranch-student-declan-riley-wins-prestigious-writing-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"Travis Ranch student Declan Riley wins prestigious writing awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declan Riley, an eighth grader at Travis Ranch School, recently earned a National Medal in the 2016 Scholastic Art &amp; Writing Awards for his &#8220;Humor&#8221; submission titled, &#8220;Happy Birthday?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 320,000 works of art and writing were submitted by secondary students this year. Receiving a National Medal places Declan within the top one percent of all submissions!<\/p>\n<p>The awards are sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists &amp; Writers and Scholastic, Inc. Past winners include Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Robert Redford, Lena Dunham and Ken Burns.<\/p>\n<p>Declan also won three regional awards: two Gold Keys for both a dramatic script and the aforementioned\u00a0story, &#8220;Happy Birthday?&#8221;, and a Silver Key for a piece of flash fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Declan will be traveling\u00a0to Carnegie Hall in New York City on Thursday, June 2, to accept his gold medal award.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandwriting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/National-Notifications-Announcement-v20160314.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (PDF) for more information. Congrats Declan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declan Riley, an eighth grader at Travis Ranch School, recently earned a National Medal in the 2016 Scholastic Art &amp; Writing Awards for his &#8220;Humor&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1178,15],"tags":[401],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-school","category-school-district","tag-travis-ranch-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","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=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}