{"id":2386,"date":"2016-02-29T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:38:17","slug":"its-an-attitude-that-ive-come-to-admire-and-aspire-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/its-an-attitude-that-ive-come-to-admire-and-aspire-to\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;AN ATTITUDE I\u2019VE COME TO ADMIRE AND ASPIRE TO&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/02\/singing.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2392\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/02\/singing.png\" alt=\"singing\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/02\/singing.png 960w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/02\/singing-659x439.png 659w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/02\/singing-768x512.png 768w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/02\/singing-700x467.png 700w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/02\/singing-332x221.png 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These kids make me laugh until my stomach hurts. Every Tuesday and Thursday, as we congregate around our usual table, I can\u2019t wait to hear the anecdotes they\u2019ve saved up in the days since I last spent time with them. Blunt and hysterical, self-deprecating and downright silly, I\u2019m consistently awed. At twelve and thirteen years old, they are already natural storytellers.<\/p>\n<p>Even though we\u2019ve only spent a few weeks working with these students, I\u2019ve already learned so much from the way in which they choose to tell their stories.\u00a0From tripping down the stairs to accidentally texting the boy they insist they don\u2019t like \u2013 every memory becomes an opportunity to make their friends laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Though they could easily and understandably resort to negativity and bitterness when faced with life\u2019s daily challenges, the girls I\u2019ve been lucky enough to meet refuse to be defeated so easily. Instead, they navigate through an age that many adults would rather forget with a sense of humor that makes them fearless.<\/p>\n<p>Sparing no details, they share with me their frustrations, embarrassments, and triumphs. Together, we commiserate or celebrate. They tease each other lovingly, poking fun until everyone is belly laughing or pouting with gleeful indignation. They temper hardship with humor, and it\u2019s an attitude I\u2019ve come to admire and aspire to.<\/p>\n<p>Though the proverbial \u2018grown up\u2019 is always grumbling about how kids these days think they\u2019re invincible, the truth is they kind of are. As long as they can laugh in the face of obstacles, turning each one into a story, they\u2019re unconquerable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dani Wallace is a junior\u00a0English and Gender, Women &amp; Sexuality Studies major.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These kids make me laugh until my stomach hurts. Every Tuesday and Thursday, as we congregate around our usual table, I can\u2019t wait to hear the anecdotes they\u2019ve saved up in the days since I last spent time with them. Blunt and hysterical, self-deprecating and downright silly, I\u2019m consistently awed. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":2392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15637,37038],"tags":[],"coauthors":[265091],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broad-ripple","category-bu-tutor-reflections","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}