{"id":449,"date":"2012-01-08T21:53:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T02:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-01-08T21:53:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T02:53:22","slug":"beginning-into-adulthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Beginning into adulthood."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I began my high school career at age 13 which is a year younger then most people because I am a December baby. I just made the Birthday cut of\u00a0 for school so I was always the youngest and smallest in my class. I never knew any different so it never bothered me. But high school was different. The school was a lot further from home and a lot bigger. I had always been lucky enough in elementary school to live close enough to walk. But my high school was about a 35+ minute walk from home so I took the city bus instead. My first day was very intimidating. I had missed the day that they took the students on a tour of the school so all I had was my class schedule and a map of the school. I walked around the building 3 times before I decided which door I was going to go in. Even with the map I was very lost but I found my locker and my first class. First period was my elective class it was a metal working class. I arrived at the shop class and walked into take my seat when the teacher stopped me. &#8220;I think you&#8217;re in the wrong place&#8221; he said. I was momentarily confused before he continued &#8220;the<strong> junior<\/strong> high school is up the street&#8221;.\u00a0 What a great start to the day that was. In that one moment I lost all confidence I had in making it through that day. Some how I managed to survive the rest of the day and even made it home with out getting lost. I am so glad those days are behind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began my high school career at age 13 which is a year younger then most people because I am a December baby. I just made the Birthday cut of\u00a0 for school so I was always the youngest and smallest in my class. I never knew any different so it never bothered me. But high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}