{"id":332,"date":"2017-07-14T14:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/?p=332"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:34:14","slug":"one-weeks-challenge-leads-to-invigorating-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/one-weeks-challenge-leads-to-invigorating-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stride Of Struggle Leads To Invigorating Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night dinner at a fancy restaurant set the tone for the rest of the week and something I&#8217;ll remember for the rest of my career: If you want the finer things, you&#8217;re going to have to work hard for it.<\/p>\n<p>This week has been a challenge for me. Not only did I test my strengths and areas I could improve on, but I also tested my passion for journalism.<\/p>\n<p>I came into this program as a full-on strategic communications \u201cPR girl.\u201d I knew I could tell a good story but unfortunately, they were one-sided. Journalism requires getting the full story along with additional research, and that is something I quickly learned.<\/p>\n<p>We all had to recite our pitch to our editor on our first day. I went up to pitch, and I listed some &#8220;alternative facts.&#8221; I learned that if you don&#8217;t do the research, you can&#8217;t officially say it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335\" src=\"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/Facetune-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/Facetune-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/Facetune-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/Facetune-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Ribeiro recording sound at Sim&#8217;s Boxing Gym.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another thing I took from the program is pushing myself to work faster. Ongoing deadlines applied pressure that I\u2019m normally not used to. It was good for me.<\/p>\n<p>Working with a mentor in the industry was extremely satisfying. I learned a lot about the field and information I will be able to use as a young professional.<\/p>\n<p>As I complete my final years as a college student, I plan to incorporate the skills I learned into everything I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night dinner at a fancy restaurant set the tone for the rest of the week and something I&#8217;ll remember for the rest of my career: If you want the finer things, you&#8217;re going to have to work hard for it. This week has been a challenge for me. Not only did I test my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}