{"id":4179,"date":"2025-05-01T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:06:05","slug":"may-editors-note-get-ready-for-ap-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/4179\/showcase\/may-editors-note-get-ready-for-ap-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"May Editor&#8217;s Note &#8211; Get Ready For AP Tests!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello Spartans! I\u2019m the Sword &amp; Shield Opinions editor, Amalia Weix. I hope everyone is having a great 4th Quarter, and feeling ready to run the AP Test gauntlet (unless you\u2019re a freshman, in which case, savor your fleeting youth).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May is a busy month for students, which makes a busy month for the Sword &amp; Shield\u2014Student Life is doing some heavy lifting, covering AP Testing, Prom, Spirit Day, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> some info on the other Spring Play, the Grown-Ups. Meanwhile, in Arts &amp; Entertainment, we have reviews on shows like The Last of Us. Over in News, Henry\u2019s breaking down the stock market, the results of recent Wisconsin elections, and our Secretary of Defense\u2019s unfortunate group chat habits. Sports is recapping March Madness, VPM\u2019s Spring Sports, and some recent drama in F1. The Opinions are piping hot\u2014literally, with the controversial claim that \u201cSteve\u2019s Lava Chicken\u201d from the Minecraft Movie is the song of the year. We\u2019ve also got some articles opining on the casting decisions of the recently announced Beatles biopics, the importance of trigger warnings, and whether or not YA Dystopias actually count as dystopias. Also, a second live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake was announced, so check out my condensed, simmered hate for that in article form!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Spartans! I\u2019m the Sword &amp; Shield Opinions editor, Amalia Weix. I hope everyone is having a great 4th Quarter, and feeling ready to run the AP Test gauntlet (unless you\u2019re a freshman, in which case, savor your fleeting youth).\u00a0 May is a busy month for students, which makes a busy month for the Sword&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,11],"tags":[272],"staff_name":[202],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-notes","category-showcase","tag-may-25","staff_name-amalia-weix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"staff_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_name?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}