{"id":2421,"date":"2015-05-25T08:59:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2015-05-25T08:59:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T12:59:48","slug":"2014-midstate-ems-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/2014-midstate-ems-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Midstate EMS Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><u>Midstate Educator of Excellence&#160; <\/u>Erik Merrill AEMT-P, CIC (Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what was said) <\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><u><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>An extraordinary teacher, respected paramedic and friend are the words used to describe the 2014 Midstate Educator of Excellence. A challenging and demanding instructor, never letting up on us and always making sure we understand what he was teaching that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what makes Erik special.<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>A successful career paramedic who is dedicated to teaching EMS, he has worked with the other instructor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to create standardized presentations and evaluations that have improved all our classes. His students are always well prepared for both the practical and written certification exams. <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>His students wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It takes an educator of excellence to turn a group of people with a common interest into a team of critical thinkers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The class added it is his determination, confidence and passion for EMS that make him \u00e2\u20ac\u0153special\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>in the words of his class \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he just CARES\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and all that know him&#160; agree.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midstate Educator of Excellence&#160; Erik Merrill AEMT-P, CIC (Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what was said) An extraordinary teacher, respected paramedic and friend are the words used to describe the 2014 Midstate Educator of Excellence. A challenging and demanding instructor, never letting up on us and always making sure we understand what he was teaching that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what makes Erik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}