{"id":4562,"date":"2020-05-15T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=4562"},"modified":"2020-05-15T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:31:47","slug":"so-youre-mad-about-the-cups-was-the-ride-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=4562","title":{"rendered":"So You&#8217;re Mad About the Cups was the ride of my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Linus Kaechele<\/strong><br \/>\nCentral Trend<br \/>\nForest Hills Central HS<br \/>\n1st Place Division 3, News Writing<br \/>\nReview<\/p>\n<p><b>JUDGING CRITERIA<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharp, attention-getting lead that clarifies subject<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gives a short summary or adequate information about subject<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discusses strengths and weaknesses of subject<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uses specific examples to support opinion<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Displays knowledge of subject<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shows thought and research<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colorful, lively presentation; effective form\/style<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proper diction\/grammar<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was slurring my way through a Sunday afternoon. Silence surrounding my steps. I scrolled through my Spotify looking for a soundtrack to surprise me. That\u2019s when I found\u00a0<i>So You\u2019re Mad About the Cups<\/i>. Sarah and the Sundays turned my sluggishness into a suave smoothness.<\/p>\n<p>As this album leaked out of my speakers, I felt as though this music should be escorted by an ambiance of applause, not the cavernous quiet of my empty house.<\/p>\n<p>So, I got in my car.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t have a destination set; I just planned on driving wherever the music took me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuby Fields\u201d had me on Cascade Road, sparing the speed limit five miles per hour. My surroundings liquidized in my peripherals as I drove on. Fluidly and gracefully, this song wept for a setting as beautiful as it; the autumn trees seemingly did not suffice. \u201cRuby Fields\u201d glittered on the street signs and shined in my rearview mirror.<\/p>\n<p>As I turned onto 28th Street, my seatbelt was the only thing restraining me from dancing in the streets as \u201cSweet Dream\u201d caressed my cheek with its short melody. \u201cChin Up\u201d veered me into the left lane and pedaled to the metal\u2014legally.<\/p>\n<p>When \u201cIf You Need Me\u201d came on, I needed a place to park, and I found refuge in a Goodwill parking lot. Tucked in between two yellow parking-lot lines, I succumbed to the intermission of a\u00a0 musical road trip. Earbuds in, \u201cGhost\u201d lured me in through the sliding doors of the thrift shop, but the clothing was more the background music compared to the lyrics circling my cerebrum.<\/p>\n<p>It felt oddly fitting to be looking through closet memories to the tune of \u201cReminiscing.\u201d As my fingers cradled foreign fabrics, I found myself searching for material as silken and soft as the voices serenading me. It was a song that didn\u2019t seem to have an end. Voices carried over seconds and minutes, proving that music evades time. Then suddenly, they dropped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGolden\u201d led me to the coat section as I began to test the warmth of winter jackets and the chill swishiness of windbreakers. Though nothing would live to see my closet, I still left layered in a few extra memories sprinkled with new lyrics stuck in my mind. Lyrics that I could not, would not forget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve Followed This Street for Days\u201d paved a path toward the pants portion of the store. Searching for corduroy, denim, and anything in between, my fingers were determining between scratchy and smooth, worn and new. I left bare of new trousers, but the catchy tunes had snuck their way into my pockets and laced themselves through my belt loops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoved On\u201d brought me into the shirt section. As I plucked the best from their permanence on the rack, the music wove itself into the shirts and became one with the thread count. Three new shirts with one song attached to them all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying God\u201d pulled me out of the store and sang as the wind prickled and filtered through my hair. It followed me through the parking lot until we met inside my car. Just the two of us: alone. The song is\u00a0<i>strange<\/i>. Strange-looking, strange-sounding, strange-feeling, a strange that you don\u2019t want to leave behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Woods\u201d turned the key in the ignition. The song itself was a starter, a firecracker, something from which other things are born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhost (Reprise)\u201d paralleled the beginning of this road trip. My foot was a feather on the gas as I was ruthlessly passed driving down 28th. I let my windows fall, but the music didn\u2019t escape my car; instead, the outside entered through the windows. A metropolitan orchestra swam through my car, but the hollow beauty of \u201cGhost (Reprise)\u201d remained clear.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled into my driveway with \u201cGrowing Pains\u201d in the passenger seat. It\u2019s a climactic song. It\u2019s the zenith of a moment. It\u2019s a build-up that starts at one hundred, but it didn\u2019t last forever.\u00a0 I left my car and met the smell of the memories of music that fled through my exhaust pipe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecentraltrend.com\/72037\/opinion\/reviews\/so-youre-mad-about-the-cups-was-the-ride-of-my-life\/\">Click here for the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Linus Kaechele Central Trend Forest Hills Central HS 1st Place Division 3, News Writing Review JUDGING CRITERIA Sharp, attention-getting lead that clarifies subject Gives a short summary or adequate information about subject Discusses strengths and weaknesses of subject Uses specific examples to support opinion Displays knowledge of subject Shows thought and research Colorful, lively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,56],"tags":[175,22],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nw","category-review","tag-2019-20","tag-division3","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joel Beeker","author_link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?author=9"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6K0n6-1bA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}