{"id":16,"date":"2018-06-19T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T03:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/?p=16"},"modified":"2018-06-30T00:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T04:16:01","slug":"why-am-i-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/2018\/06\/19\/why-am-i-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I initially received the email from my principal about this opportunity, I will admit, I simply skimmed it and went about my way. Then, one Sunday afternoon, I revisited the email and did a little bit of research on Kenan Fellows and realized what a great opportunity this could be for both me and my students!<\/p>\n<p>That is when I started the application. Then, I brought it to my students and they convinced me to create the video below to submit as part of my application. Thanks to them, I was granted an interview&#8230;.and the rest is HISTORY! I am SO happy to be part of this amazing opportunity as a Kenan Fellow. I can&#8217;t wait to see what all is to come and what I can bring to my students!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kenan Fellows Candidate Video\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fg6ovvOkYgQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I initially received the email from my principal about this opportunity, I will admit, I simply skimmed it and went about my way. Then, one Sunday afternoon, I revisited the email and did a little bit of research on Kenan Fellows and realized what a great opportunity this could be for both me and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/2018\/06\/19\/why-am-i-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why am I here?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning","tag-18kfpd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcobb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}