{"id":690,"date":"2024-09-14T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/?p=690"},"modified":"2024-11-12T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:20:10","slug":"28-your-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/28-your-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"28 | Your Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Take a photo that shows us the story of your culture.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My family’s time in New York City may be a small blip in our ancestors’ chronology, but it means a lot to me. It was where I was born, where I spent the first eight years of my life, and where I hope to return to in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2007-2015, I lived in three different apartments in the Upper West Side neighborhood. Surrounded by parks, ice cream trucks, bagel shops, and little Jewish antique shops– I was proud to call the UWS my home. It’s a real shame that I couldn’t stay there until I grew old enough to roam the neighborhood by myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took this picture from the rooftop of the Amazon Music offices in Brooklyn while on a tour for a summer pre-college program at NYU. Geologically, I was facing the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that I had never actually been to. The inclusion of the Stuyvesant Town\/Peter Cooper Village neighborhood, a post-WWII-era residential development (see: the red brick apartments) is also a subtle nod to my great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1920s and ’30s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Take a photo that shows us the story of your culture.” My family’s time in New York City may be a small blip in our ancestors’ chronology, but it means a lot to me. It was where I was born, where I spent the first eight years of my life, and where I hope to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}