{"id":2,"date":"2024-01-10T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:48:35","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h1>About Us<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Mission:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>St. John&#8217;s Lutheran C<span style=\"line-height:0.9;\"><\/span>hildhood Center seeks to meet the needs of the whole child by offering a safe and quality education in a loving, Christian environment.<br><\/p>\n<h3><strong>History:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>St. John&#8217;s Early Childhood Center is a ministry of St. John&#8217;s Lutheran Church and has been serving the Merrick Community for over 25 years. We offer preschool programs for children ages 2-4, Parent and Me Programs, and a Summer Camp which runs for six weeks each summer.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>School Environment:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>At St. John&#8217;s ECC, children are taught at developmentally appropriate stages. We use a child-centered approach with lessons focusing on the child&#8217;s social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and spiritual development. St. John&#8217;s offers spacious learning environments, indoor and outdoor play spaces,&nbsp; smart board technology,&nbsp; as well as a varied choice of additional learning opportunities through our add-on programs. These programs include dance, cooking,&nbsp; gymnastics, karate, and sports programs like Amazing Athletes and Super Soccer Stars. Through these programs, we strive to create well rounded young learners.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmerrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}