{"id":210728,"date":"2024-11-04T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=210728"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:20:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:20:32","slug":"scm-photojournalism-students-cover-park-opening-in-paterson-with-mayor-sayegh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2024\/11\/04\/scm-photojournalism-students-cover-park-opening-in-paterson-with-mayor-sayegh\/","title":{"rendered":"SCM Photojournalism Students Cover Park Opening in Paterson with Mayor Sayegh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~franklinth\">Thomas Franklin&#8217;s photojournalism class<\/a> took a field trip to Paterson on Tuesday to cover the grand opening of Jeanette Thompson Park, a reclamation project initiated by Mayor Andre Sayegh and the City of Paterson that transformed a once vacant lot and site of illicit activity into a family playground and amphitheater.<\/p>\n<p>The park had previously been a blight on Paterson\u2019s First Ward neighborhood. The mayor also provided students with a tour of the river walkway project at the Great Falls. The assignment offered students a hands-on educational experience in covering live events and issue reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Thomas Franklin&#8217;s photojournalism class took a field trip to Paterson on Tuesday to cover the grand opening of Jeanette Thompson Park, a reclamation project initiated by Mayor Andre Sayegh and the City of Paterson that transformed a once vacant lot and site of illicit activity into a family playground and amphitheater. The park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":210729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-235_school-of-communication-and-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210730,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210728\/revisions\/210730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}