{"id":6189,"date":"2021-05-21T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2021-05-21T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:00:43","slug":"another-chapter-in-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6189","title":{"rendered":"Another Chapter in the Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Sarah Riddell<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>\u201cMany are the plans in a person\u2019s heart, but it is the Lord\u2019s purpose that prevails\u201d \u2013 Proverbs 19:21<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes life throws you curveballs, and it was one of these that led me to Roanoke College. For years, the dream had been to attend a college in the middle of Boston, MA, even though everyone who knows me knows that I likely wouldn\u2019t have lasted a single winter up north. As a habitual planner, I first viewed this change of course as a complete nightmare, but after my first week of classes at RC, I realized that I\u2019d ended up right where I should have been from the beginning. Even as a commuter student, Roanoke College quickly became my home away from home, and it was all thanks to the amazing souls that have encouraged and guided me over these past four years. I\u2019ve made forever friends and memories that will last a lifetime. I\u2019ve had the most extraordinary opportunities befall me that I never anticipated being able to take part in, but it was these that continued to shape me into the student, and, more importantly, the person I am today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though I\u2019ve always been a behind-the-scenes player on the Brackety-Ack staff (mostly due to my own social awkwardness!), it has been such a privilege to work with such amazingly talented people for the past year. Thank you all for being some of the most welcoming, patient, and kind individuals on planet earth \u2013 I will miss you all so very much, and I can\u2019t wait to see where life takes each of you!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My time at Roanoke has been filled with so many blessings, and though I am sad to see my time here end, I am thrilled to see what the next chapter holds (ha\u2026 shoutout to all my LITS friends that giggled while reading my totally intentional pun). Be well and prosperous, fellow Maroons!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gratefully,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Sarah Riddell \u201cMany are the plans in a person\u2019s heart, but it is the Lord\u2019s purpose that prevails\u201d \u2013 Proverbs 19:21 Sometimes life throws you curveballs, and it was one of these that led me to Roanoke College. For years, the dream had been to attend a college in the middle of Boston,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6191,"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":[4],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folks-at-noke","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","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=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}