{"id":696,"date":"2021-09-24T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/?p=696"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:54:02","slug":"it-truly-takes-a-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/2021\/09\/it-truly-takes-a-village\/","title":{"rendered":"It truly takes a village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What resonated the most with me was a line from one of Managing Editor Stephanie Kuo\u2019s first emails: \u201cIt truly takes a village.\u201d I did not understand what she meant until the first day of Next Generation Radio, and I kept thinking about that all week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interviewing a person like Marentes, who has spent most of his life advocating for others, only reinforces my love for journalism and helps me better understand my role in my community. We all have to do our part to create a better functioning community. Just as Steph said, \u201cit truly takes a village.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am not going to lie, I was very nervous on Sunday night, \u201cWhat if I don\u2019t understand anything or if they regret choosing me by Monday morning?\u201d But everyone in the project was so NICE, humble, helpful, and most importantly, everyone shared their best tips to get things done better and faster \u2013 which I think is incredible. It goes back to the core mission of this program: learning and creating the next generation of storytellers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At times, it gets overwhelming, but by the end of the week, you walk away with so much knowledge \u2013 not only the \u201ctechnical stuff\u201d but also the stuff you learn from just being and working around others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think something that inspired me to apply this year was the topic. I myself still can\u2019t make up my own definition of what it means to be American. I am not quite sure, especially as an immigrant, working to stay in this country through constantly applying for visas, changing status, etc. Still, I am confident that this program made me more confident of what I am capable of, and I hope one day I can help someone apply just as a mentor did for me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What resonated the most with me was a line from one of Managing Editor Stephanie Kuo\u2019s first emails: \u201cIt truly takes a village.\u201d I did not understand what she meant until the first day of Next Generation Radio, and I kept thinking about that all week.\u00a0 Interviewing a person like Marentes, who has spent most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasnewsroom2021.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}