{"id":1439,"date":"2016-02-11T21:05:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T21:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:09:50","slug":"mattoon-middle-school-6th-grade-class-visits-the-sousa-archives-and-flat-sousa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2016\/02\/11\/mattoon-middle-school-6th-grade-class-visits-the-sousa-archives-and-flat-sousa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattoon Middle School 6th Grade Class Visits the Sousa Archives and Flat Sousa Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4344\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-Mattoon-Middle-School-6th-Grade-Class-1024x576-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4344\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-Mattoon-Middle-School-6th-Grade-Class-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-Mattoon-Middle-School-6th-Grade-Class-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-Mattoon-Middle-School-6th-Grade-Class-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-Mattoon-Middle-School-6th-Grade-Class-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mattoon Middle School 6th Grade Classes with Flat Sousa after visiting the Sousa Archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sixth grade classes from Mattoon Middle School visited the Sousa Archives today and learned about the Center&#8217;s unique collection of historical music instruments, early sound recording technologies, James Beauchamp&#8217;s Harmonic Tone Generator, the Sal-Mar Construction, and the music of John Philip Sousa.\u00a0 Everyone had a great time and we hope many of the students will come back in the future to use our collections for research projects about America&#8217;s wonderful music legacy.\u00a0 Flat Sousa was delighted to meet everyone and hopes the next time the student musicians play one of his marches, they remember their visit today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth grade classes from Mattoon Middle School visited the Sousa Archives today and learned about the Center&#8217;s unique collection of historical music instruments, early sound recording technologies, James Beauchamp&#8217;s Harmonic Tone Generator, the Sal-Mar Construction, and the music of John Philip Sousa.\u00a0 Everyone had a great time and we hope many of the students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}