{"id":9404,"date":"2017-10-06T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=9404"},"modified":"2019-07-10T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:09:21","slug":"representing-rollins-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/10\/06\/representing-rollins-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing Rollins Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promised myself I would do more to&nbsp;be engaged with the community this semester. I spent all summer with friends who did service, whether organizing&nbsp;SPARC Day or volunteering at the Conductive Education Center of Orlando, and they reminded me how little I had given of myself while at Rollins. I worried I wouldn&#8217;t have time to&nbsp;anything because of my internship and&nbsp;courses, but fortunately, American University has DC Reads, a literacy program for college students to tutor children from kindergarten through middle school in the DC area. It&#8217;ll be only two hours a week, but two hours over eight&nbsp;can make the difference of a whole grade level in reading comprehension.&nbsp;As for my being more involved, it&nbsp;may not be giving a lot of myself, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised myself I would do more to&nbsp;be engaged with the community this semester. I spent all summer with friends who did service, whether organizing&nbsp;SPARC Day or volunteering at the Conductive Education Center of Orlando, and they reminded me how little I had given of myself while at Rollins. I worried I wouldn&#8217;t have time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":9405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions\/14631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}