{"id":2048,"date":"2015-11-07T13:46:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T21:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2015-11-07T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T21:50:03","slug":"humans-of-western-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/humans-of-western-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Megan Clark\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p>\u201cI was a correctional officer for many years, and, uh, I think I stuck with it because I felt like I was perhaps making a difference in people&#8217;s lives. If they made poor decisions and they ended up in prison, maybe my role-modeling made a difference to them. But at the end of the day, I felt like I wasn\u2019t making enough of a positive difference, so I wanted to change my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom had been clean and sober for twelve years, and then in April she fell off the wagon &#8230; Right now, I go back and forth between being really upset with addiction &#8230; and then also thinking about how lucky I was to have gotten to have those times with her in those twelve years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most memorable thing [about being a correctional officer] for me was an interaction with an inmate &#8230; she had made significant changes in the way she saw the world around her, what we call in the system \u2018criminal thinking\u2019&#8230; she got out, and it was probably about four months later, I saw her in a commercial for Goodwill and she had gotten a job and became a spokesperson for the company, and it touched me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a correctional officer for many years, and, uh, I think I stuck with it because I felt like I was perhaps making a difference in people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":2104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}