{"id":997,"date":"2018-11-09T12:58:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=997"},"modified":"2018-11-09T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:58:41","slug":"reflecting-on-potomac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Potomac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My experience during the 2018 youth mentoring summit trip in Potomac, Maryland was fantastic. Being around people from different states was kind of awkward at first until I got to know almost everyone there. The Bolger Center, where we stayed, was absolutely beautiful. The rooms were small but I can\u2019t complain. They had an indoor pool, a meeting center, and an auditorium as well. I enjoyed every meeting because they were fun and they got me out of my comfort zone. The meetings made me look at things different and made me realize some things.<br \/>\nAlso, I really had fun with my friends the party they had organized for us. It included old-school music mixed in with new-school music, featuring a live DJ. I danced, laughed, joked around, and mostly made a lot of new friends. What I most enjoyed was the food. They had everything that I like to eat plus more, so whoever was in the kitchen knew what they were doing. I hope we have a chance to return to the same place again next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/37875437_10155897408822266_3347720603988656128_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/37875437_10155897408822266_3347720603988656128_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/37875437_10155897408822266_3347720603988656128_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/37875437_10155897408822266_3347720603988656128_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/37875437_10155897408822266_3347720603988656128_n-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/37875437_10155897408822266_3347720603988656128_n-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/37875437_10155897408822266_3347720603988656128_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/youthnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/37875437_10155897408822266_3347720603988656128_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My experience during the 2018 youth mentoring summit trip in Potomac, Maryland was fantastic. Being around people from different states was kind of awkward at first until I got to know almost everyone there. The Bolger Center, where we stayed,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/?p=997\">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":[14,3,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dunnpal","category-entertainment","category-events","category-studentblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}