{"id":6881,"date":"2013-12-05T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2013-12-05T06:55:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:55:51","slug":"as-schools-match-wits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/as-schools-match-wits\/","title":{"rendered":"As Schools Match Wits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6883\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2013\/12\/05\/as-schools-match-wits\/1969-schools-match-wits\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6883\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6883\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6883\" alt=\"1969 As Schools Match Wits Team\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1969-schools-match-wits-300x215.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1969-schools-match-wits-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1969-schools-match-wits.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front row, seated, left to right: K. Howes, S. Menard, A. Messenger, N. Judge, A. Polak; Back row, standing, left to right: K. Swinski, R. Esty, R. Smith, R. Hampson, M. Heafy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Holyoke High School Team, 1969<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Browsing though this yearbook inspired me to search and was interested to see <em>As Schools Match Wits<\/em> is alive and well at <a title=\"As Schools Match Wits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wgby.org\/asmw\" target=\"_blank\">Westfield University<\/a> (this site has a link to a list of the winners) and also the requisite <a title=\"As Schools Match Wits\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/As_Schools_Match_Wits\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> about the show. I remembered Phil Shepardson had died and found a <a title=\"Death of Phil Shepardson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwlp.com\/news\/local\/hampden\/-as-schools-match-wits-host-dies\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Kriger memorial about Shepardson&#8217;s death, <\/a>available on the WWLP website. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holyoke High School Team, 1969 Browsing though this yearbook inspired me to search and was interested to see As Schools Match Wits is alive and well at Westfield University (this site has a link to a list of the winners) and also the requisite Wikipedia entry about the show. I remembered Phil Shepardson had died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,21,494],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}