{"id":1252,"date":"2017-03-21T08:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2017-03-21T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:34:56","slug":"the-new-valedictorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"The New  Valedictorian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-09.28.20.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1253 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-09.28.20.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a>Working with the Mission Generation textbooks I have learned to love myself and my parents. I have also learned how to be responsible and to study hard. I think responsibility, respect and honesty are the most important values. These teachings have had a tremendous impact on my life. What has stuck with me the most was the fact that we have to have a life plan; I keep a journal next to my bed where I write down all my goals, dreams and ideas of how to make them come true. Before I knew about the Mission Generation textbooks I was afraid to dream big because I was afraid that my dreams might not ever come true. I would encourage my classmates and friends to be more responsible at school so that they do not miss opportunities in life and to always dream big.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the goals I had for this year was to be the class valedictorian. I typically made average grades, however this year I have applied myself as best I can to school and I am now the person in my class with the best grades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>Elizabeth Rodr\u00edguez Cruz <\/strong>(age 17)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Translated from Spanish\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with the Mission Generation textbooks I have learned to love myself and my parents. I have also learned how to be responsible and to study hard. I think responsibility, respect and honesty are the most important values. These teachings have had a tremendous impact on my life. What has stuck with me the most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-testimonies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}