{"id":8018,"date":"2018-02-09T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2018-02-09T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:29:58","slug":"congressman-vela-visits-fifth-grade-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8018","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Vela Visits Fifth-Grade Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25039614027_a3acc15020_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7990\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25039614027_a3acc15020_k.jpg\" alt=\"25039614027_a3acc15020_k\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25039614027_a3acc15020_k.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25039614027_a3acc15020_k-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25039614027_a3acc15020_k-405x301.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25039614027_a3acc15020_k-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela was on hand for the flag-raising ceremony at Rancho Verde Elementary&#8217;s designation as a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education Jan. 26, and decided to play teacher after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vela went to visit two fifth-grade classrooms at RVE to talk about U.S. history, the role of the federal government, and his position in Washington D.C. Many knew the answers to his questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vela quizzed students in the classrooms of Javier Lopez and Shelby Crouch with questions such as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What are the three branches of the government?&#8221; Answer: judicial, legislative and executive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How is the Legislature divided: Answer: U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How many members of Congress are there? Answer: 100 in Senate, 435 in House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How is it determined how many Representatives each state has: Answer: By state population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How many Representatives does Texas have? Answer: 36. Rep. Vela represents District 34.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What state has the fewest members in the House of Representatives: Several have only one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vela also met with student groups at RVE. He was the keynote speaker at the Flag-Raising ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela was on hand for the flag-raising ceremony at Rancho Verde Elementary&#8217;s designation as a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education Jan. 26, and decided to play teacher after the ceremony. Vela went to visit two fifth-grade classrooms at RVE to talk about U.S. history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions\/8019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}