{"id":253,"date":"2016-11-26T04:54:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.soe.umich.edu\/a2lp\/?p=253"},"modified":"2016-11-26T05:14:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T05:14:24","slug":"spanish-is-more-than-a-hobby-kyle-koats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/spanish-is-more-than-a-hobby-kyle-koats\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Is More Than A Hobby &#8211; Kyle Koats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More Than Just a Hobby: If someone had told me on my first day of high school Spanish that 7 years laterI would be a Spanish teacher, I never would have believed them. Today, I teach Spanish to 3rd graders with A2LP, tutor Latin American immigrants who are learning English, and volunteer at a Spanish-speaking school. Because of Spanish, I have been able to study and travel in 3 different continents and learn how people live and interact in each of the places I&#8217;ve visited. Spanish has made a huge impact on my life. Now, I want to inspire others to learn Spanish and show how it can be used to create mutual understanding between people of different cultures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Than Just a Hobby: If someone had told me on my first day of high school Spanish that 7 years laterI would be a Spanish teacher, I never would have believed them. Today, I teach Spanish to 3rd graders with A2LP, tutor Latin American immigrants who are learning English, and volunteer at a Spanish-speaking&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/spanish-is-more-than-a-hobby-kyle-koats\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spanish Is More Than A Hobby &#8211; Kyle Koats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}