{"id":318,"date":"2016-02-08T19:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.gcschool.org\/gremlinsvoice\/?p=318"},"modified":"2016-02-08T19:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:54:50","slug":"318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/318\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe Your Experience in Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolpress.cdn.whipplehill.net\/gcschool648\/4\/files\/2016\/02\/Image-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-319\" src=\"http:\/\/schoolpress.cdn.whipplehill.net\/gcschool648\/4\/files\/2016\/02\/Image-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) Vincent M., Charlie T., Manny B.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Vincent M., Charlie T., Manny B.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I was a cool cat in middle school. Except when I was sixth grade when my friends posted me as an unwanted child on ebay. They convinced me my parents didn&#8217;t want me anymore, and I cried.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Vincent Maher class of 2016<\/p>\n<p>(Vincent owes Manny a dead arm and the interview takes a quick break to observe.)<\/p>\n<p>(Manny picks up the conversation.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Middle school? I was fat, I didn&#8217;t talk to anyone, and I played video games. Oh, and I loved chocolate, yeah\u00a0I ate\u00a0chocolate\u00a0a lot, like every day. But everyone liked me, they loved me.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Manny Balbontin class of 2016<\/p>\n<p>(Then Loren talks.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I went to a small school and we all knew eachother, 15 kids actually. By the end we were all ready to see new faces.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Loren Grandelli Class of 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Me too I had 30 and felt the same.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Charlie Tiedemann Class of 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was a cool cat in middle school. Except when I was sixth grade when my friends posted me as an unwanted child on ebay. They convinced me my parents&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/318\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Describe Your Experience in Middle School&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"genericon genericon-next\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"appful":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9uEnr-318","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"appful","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/appful?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}