{"id":20286,"date":"2025-09-10T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=20286"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:40:04","slug":"how-this-high-school-marching-band-stays-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=20286","title":{"rendered":"How This High School Marching Band Stays Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In Buda, Texas, the summers can be scorching hot. And the heat continues well into the school year.<\/p>\n<p>The high temperatures present health risks for student-athletes, like the football players enduring summer practices. Students in the high school marching band are also at risk for dehydration and heat-related illnesses as they rehearse in the heat.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a concern that John Rauschuber, director of bands at Jack C. Hays High School, takes seriously. <\/p>\n<p>Here, he explains how he keeps student musicians safe in the heat, and how he keeps parents looped in and comfortable while their children are in his care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Buda, Texas, the summers can be scorching hot. And the heat continues well into the school year. The high temperatures present health risks for student-athletes, like the football players enduring summer practices. Students in the high school marching band are also at risk for dehydration and heat-related illnesses as they rehearse in the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[861,108,949,12420,334,12482],"class_list":{"0":"post-20286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-band","9":"tag-cool","10":"tag-high","11":"tag-marching","12":"tag-school","13":"tag-stays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}