{"id":101,"date":"2008-04-06T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/2008\/04\/06\/thats-my-boy-too\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T17:39:20","slug":"thats-my-boy-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s My Boy, Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, I got word that my younger son was accepted to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology!<\/p>\n<p>This school was recently ranked by US News and World Report as the Number One high school in the nation!\u00c2\u00a0 They have support from many of the tech companies in the area, and have things like a neuroscience lab and a satellite up in orbit that was programmed by TJ students.<\/p>\n<p>The school is public, and they bus from all over Northern Virginia, but the process of getting in is hugely competitive.\u00c2\u00a0 First there is a test, with an essay portion.\u00c2\u00a0 Semifinalists, who do well enough on the test, must submit teacher recommendations and a personal statement and another application.\u00c2\u00a0 They choose less than 500 students, out of more than 1600 semifinalists.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8211;I&#8217;m very excited that my son was selected!\u00c2\u00a0 And very proud, too!\u00c2\u00a0 What a wonderful opportunity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, I got word that my younger son was accepted to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology! This school was recently ranked by US News and World Report as the Number One high school in the nation!\u00c2\u00a0 They have support from many of the tech companies in the area, and have things like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}