{"id":5263,"date":"2020-04-17T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2020-04-17T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:00:56","slug":"gs-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5263","title":{"rendered":"G&#8217;s Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Garrett Ruggieri, Sports Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear Roanoke,<\/p>\n<p>A greatest moment? No, plenty. A fondest memory? No, a full scrapbook. A best friend? Not one, all of them. Well, surely a favorite story? Yes, of course. Mine.<\/p>\n<p>A long journey that involved me falling in love with a school that gave me everything. From Smith Mountain Lake to Roanoke, I developed a passion for learning and a niche in communication studies. From Roanoke to Boston, I gained a new perspective on life and gratitude for the people always by my side. From Boston to Roanoke, I embraced a home.<\/p>\n<p>A great sense of balance was brought to my heart and mind throughout my college journey. To my friends, my family, my professors, thank you for making Roanoke a place where it is okay to make mistakes, but more importantly, thank you for upholding Roanoke as a place where it is expected of you to learn from those mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>To all Maroons, find something you love. Leave your mark. Be proud. Smile.<\/p>\n<p>You are really going to enjoy this while it lasts.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for me, the ink on the pages of the Brackety-Ack and the mark Roanoke has left on my heart will last forever.<\/p>\n<p>May all your stories be written in Maroon\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As the former Sports Editor on page 7 of the Brackety-Ack, I confidently sign off and leave you in the talented and hardworking hands of my successor, Alexis Barton.<\/p>\n<p>All the best,<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Ruggieri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Garrett Ruggieri, Sports Editor Dear Roanoke, A greatest moment? No, plenty. A fondest memory? No, a full scrapbook. A best friend? Not one, all of them. Well, surely a favorite story? Yes, of course. Mine. A long journey that involved me falling in love with a school that gave me everything. From Smith&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}