{"id":2,"date":"2011-11-10T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.info\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T17:00:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our Boarding School<\/h2>\n<p>Marine Military Academy is a college-preparatory boarding school for young men in grades 7-12 with an optional post-graduate year. Since 1965, MMA is the only private school in the world based on the traditions and values of the U.S. Marine Corps. Located on a 128-acre campus in Harlingen, Texas, MMA has been home to thousands of sons from across the world and is quarters to the historic Iwo Jima Monument. To learn more about MMA\u00a0<a class=\"external customize-unpreviewable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MMA - Transformation\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SeRYPsnN1CE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Our Summer Camp<\/h2>\n<p>Our annual summer camp offers school boys ages 11-18 the opportunity for four weeks of authentic Marine adventures and lifelong memories. Under the guidance of experienced Marines and athletic coaches, our campers learn to work as a team, develop leadership skills, and self-discipline through a series of fun and safe outdoor challenges designed to maximize physical fitness, mental sharpness, and self-confidence. From reveille to lights out, MMA Summer Camp will challenge your son as he navigates his way through a host of extraordinary individual and team activities, such as rappelling,\u00a0high ropes,\u00a0paintball, and much more.\u00a0 To learn more visit the\u00a0<a class=\"customize-unpreviewable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summer-camp-mma.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marine Military Academy Summer Camp website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Summer Camp 2017 - 30 Second Commercial\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgOJiDFvqUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Our Blog<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The MMA blog was created with the purpose of not only providing interesting articles about many of the things that go on here at the Marine Military Academy but more importantly to provide more detailed information then you might find on our website about who we are, what we do and how we do it.\u00a0 Although you can find a wealth of information on our website about the Academy, this forum is a more informal way of providing an insight into everyday events and activities, how we develop and nurture our students to better prepare them for the day they graduate.\u00a0 We hope that you find the posting informative and interesting and will become a regular reader of our site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Boarding School Marine Military Academy is a college-preparatory boarding school for young men in grades 7-12 with an optional post-graduate year. Since 1965, MMA is the only private school in the world based on the traditions and values of the U.S. Marine Corps. Located on a 128-acre campus in Harlingen, Texas, MMA has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14566,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/14566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}