{"id":6435,"date":"2017-04-14T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:29:28","slug":"vbcps-purple-military-kids-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/vbcps-purple-military-kids-april-21\/","title":{"rendered":"VBCPS to &#8216;Purple Up! for Military Kids&#8217; April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) invites the community to join the division in the celebration of &#8220;Purple Up! For Military Kids&#8221; day. By wearing purple Friday, April 21, VBCPS students and staff will show their support of the strength, sacrifices and contributions of military-connected children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Purple-Up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Purple-Up.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Up\" width=\"825\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Purple-Up.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Purple-Up-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Purple-Up-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Purple-Up-400x277.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Created by Operation: Military Kids (OMK) to honor the children of military families, Purple Up! day features the color that symbolizes the combination of all branches of the military: Army green, Air Force blue, Coast Guard blue, Marine red and Navy blue.<\/p>\n<p>Purple Up! day is one of several activities VBCPS supports during the Month of the Military Child to recognize its strong connections to a military community and the more than 17,500 military-connected students enrolled in the division. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbschools.com\/press_releases\/prfy17\/055.html\">Art of the Military Child exhibit<\/a> at Lynnhaven Mall will feature VBCPS student artwork throughout April and individual schools are hosting military family and military student appreciation events during the Month of the Military Child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) invites the community to join the division in the celebration of &#8220;Purple Up! For Military Kids&#8221; day. By wearing purple Friday, April 21, VBCPS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-connections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}