{"id":18387,"date":"2017-09-18T13:02:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T18:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=18387"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:06:30","slug":"imsa-students-torch-neighboring-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2017\/09\/18\/imsa-students-torch-neighboring-school\/","title":{"rendered":"IMSA Students Torch Neighboring School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AURORA, IL- Following their cross-country victory on Thursday, IMSA athletes gathered to participate in a long-standing Titan tradition: setting fire to Aurora Central Catholic (ACC). \u00a0Attendance at this Thursday&#8217;s celebration ran particularly high, especially as this week&#8217;s burning marks the largest and most severe of several throughout the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aurora Central Catholic, however, is already throwing itself into the reconstruction efforts. \u201cGod works in mysterious ways,\u201d said one school official, \u201cand that includes letting our school burn down every once in a while.\u201d Compelled by a strong desire to begin charging its $6,000 tuition again, as well as an unyielding love of Christ, the school has begun construction on a new, nonflammable structure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As to the question of why ACC hasn\u2019t simply considered relocating? It&#8217;s just not a viable option, claims the school&#8217;s president Bernet Down. &#8220;In this political climate,&#8221; he says, \u201cno one is safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AURORA, IL- Following their cross-country victory on Thursday, IMSA athletes gathered to participate in a long-standing Titan tradition: setting fire to Aurora Central Catholic (ACC)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":18388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2490,2621],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2596],"class_list":["post-18387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-humor-satire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18387"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18578,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387\/revisions\/18578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18387"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}