{"id":903,"date":"2018-10-17T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=903"},"modified":"2018-10-17T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:54:02","slug":"my-pal-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"My PAL Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came to PAL in 2013 after I found out about the program from a close friend. My first day went great because I met a lot of friends and usually I don&#8217;t like meeting other people. As time went by, I joined the PAL after-school program and they really helped me with all of my assignments in school. I started making good grades and passing my tests with B&#8217;s with a few A&#8217;s here and there.<br \/>\nThe PAL&#8217;s Family and Youth Mentoring Coordinator, Stephanie Coxum, introduced me to Youth Leadership Council (YLC). In Youth Leadership, I really became a better person and I started volunteering at different events. Long after that, I became the Youth Leadership Secretary. I also became a mentor in the Reach One Mentoring Program. Til this day I call PAL my second home. PAL really changed me and I&#8217;m loving everything I&#8217;ve become involved with: helping the younger kids, Media Arts, YLC, volunteering, and most of all &#8211; helping my community. I want thank PAL for all they&#8217;ve done for me over the years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/YT-a9Cc0_400x400-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/YT-a9Cc0_400x400-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/YT-a9Cc0_400x400-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/YT-a9Cc0_400x400-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/YT-a9Cc0_400x400-1-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/YT-a9Cc0_400x400-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to PAL in 2013 after I found out about the program from a close friend. My first day went great because I met a lot of friends and usually I don&#8217;t like meeting other people. As time went&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=903\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dunnpal","category-education","category-studentblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}