{"id":318,"date":"2012-03-02T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T22:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2012-03-03T18:08:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T01:08:50","slug":"who-is-up-for-an-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Who is up for an award???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do believe it is all of us, and I think winning an award or a prize \u00a0started\u00a0 at a very early age.\u00a0 There were\u00a0contests to be\u00a0entered on the back of cereal boxes, and how about digging deep into a \u00a0cracker jack box, to get that \u00a0prize.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then our awards got more difficult;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spelling Bs and essay contests, Eagle Scout and Gold Award Girl Scout, \u00a0Athletic accomplishments and Scholarly Awards as we got older.\u00a0\u00a0There is the coveted\u00a0 Olympic Gold Medal, the Super Bowl ring and the \u00a0Oscar,\u00a0to name just a few.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The \u00a0JD Powers Award is \u00a0a\u00a0 most prestigious award given to companies with superior services.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I would have to venture that 80% of all households in America have some type of trophy on a shelf, or a ribbon to be displayed for\u00a0family and visitors to admire.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did you ever wonder why you never see a trophy at a garage sale, or of all the things you had to get rid of when you moved, did you relinquish your trophies or did you\u00a0bring\u00a0 them with you. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Maybe they are not on a shelf but \u00a0in the garage in a box, but I bet many of you still \u00a0have them.\u00a0 I\u00a0know where\u00a0my Blue and Gold R , that was sewn on my cheerleading sweater is \u00a0and\u00a0I\u00a0admit, when I see it,\u00a0I still\u00a0\u00a0feel the pride of earning that letter.\u00a0 I want to talk for a moment about a very special accreditation that The Villages has been awarded.\u00a0 I call it the Gold Medal of Recreational Awards.\u00a0 The Villages&#8217; Recreation Department has been recognized for having fulfilled and completed the requirements to receive the<em> National Recreation and Parks Accreditation status from the Commission for Accreditation of Parks and Recreations Agencies<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0CAPRA.\u00a0The Villages is now part of an elite group of only 104 recreation agencies out of more than 3000 in our country.\u00a0 This achievement provides the framework for our department and the profession in establishing the highest standards for the delivery of recreation services.\u00a0 It is another component for the sustainable and perpetual plan for recreation in our community.\u00a0 Moving forward the Recreation Department will continue to expand and improve upon the 144 standards\u00a0they\u00a0were required to meet and\u00a0now maintain.\u00a0 Congratulations to everyone\u00a0involved in making our community one of the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do believe it is all of us, and I think winning an award or a prize \u00a0started\u00a0 at a very early age.\u00a0 There were\u00a0contests to be\u00a0entered on the back of cereal boxes, and how about digging deep into a \u00a0cracker jack box, to get that \u00a0prize.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then our awards got more difficult;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spelling Bs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}