{"id":81,"date":"2016-03-04T04:10:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/?p=81"},"modified":"2016-03-04T04:15:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T04:15:54","slug":"81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/2016\/03\/04\/81\/","title":{"rendered":"A love for politics gone too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/files\/2016\/03\/DC-Internship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-82\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/files\/2016\/03\/DC-Internship-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Kimberly Wethal\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/files\/2016\/03\/DC-Internship.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/files\/2016\/03\/DC-Internship-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/files\/2016\/03\/DC-Internship-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows me could tell you I love to talk politics.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the person I&#8217;m talking with loves it or not is a different story.<\/p>\n<p>It took until last month at the Dem Debate where I realized how much I loved it. Politics surround almost every aspect of a person&#8217;s life; there&#8217;s really no limit to what you can write and report on \u2013 the politicians on both sides of the aisle will fight about anything.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gone as far to make me consider adding a poli-sci minor.<\/p>\n<p>For two months this summer, those who know me will have a break from hearing me talk about it \u2013 to them, anyways.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be headed to the heart of Washington, D.C. this summer, where the rush and adrenaline from the one night of the Dem Debate will be my everyday as an intern\/student at the Institute of Political Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what media outlet I&#8217;ll be working at yet, but I know I&#8217;ll be in my own little paradise. Grabbing photos of protestors outside the Supreme Court. Walking the halls of the Capitol trying to grab my next story.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, they&#8217;ll have a two-month break \u2013 but just imagine what they&#8217;ll have to deal with when I get back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me could tell you I love to talk politics. Whether the person I&#8217;m talking with loves it or not is a different story. It took until last month at the Dem Debate where I realized how much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/2016\/03\/04\/81\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}