{"id":2438300,"date":"2019-01-31T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/p-e-first-athletics-second-at-aspen-schools\/"},"modified":"2019-01-31T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:36:00","slug":"p-e-first-athletics-second-at-aspen-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/p-e-first-athletics-second-at-aspen-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"P.E. first, athletics second at Aspen schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Gary Vavra&#8217;s letter on Jan. 28, <a id=\"N0x1238bb0N0x1251ee0:N0x1238bb0N0x1230180\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/give-some-green-for-new-turf-field-at-aspen-schools\/\">&#8220;Give us some green for new turf field,&#8221;<\/a> is misguided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A robust physical education program at the middle school, five days a week for four years as it used to be, needs to be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Generally speaking, athletic outcomes are only as good as the P.E. programs. If real estate values are higher because of a turf field, count me out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Ruth Harrison<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/p-e-first-athletics-second-at-aspen-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Vavra&#8217;s letter on Jan. 28, &#8220;Give us some green for new turf field,&#8221; is misguided. A robust physical education program at the middle school, five days a week for four years as it used to be, needs to be reinstated. Generally speaking, athletic outcomes are only as good as the P.E. programs. If real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2438300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 01:44:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}