{"id":1206,"date":"2015-04-17T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyomingextension.org\/agambassadors\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2015-04-17T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:01:51","slug":"this-rollercoaster-called-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/this-rollercoaster-called-life\/","title":{"rendered":"This Rollercoaster Called Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" style=\"width: 155px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-content\/uploads\/messer-josh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-content\/uploads\/messer-josh.jpg\" alt=\"Josh Messer\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Messer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m graduating soon. I would say how soon, but the number of weeks reminds me of how much work I still need to get done. So, \u201csoon\u201d will suffice. It feels a little bit like when I graduated from high school, except immeasurably more exciting and terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s talk about the terrifying. The only thing I know about my life after graduating is that I\u2019m going to law school, and even that is a recent conclusion. I was pretty pumped that I finally had three years planned, but then comes all of that other stuff that folks sometimes call \u201clife.\u201d Life is scary, and I\u2019m not entirely sure of what I\u2019ll be doing out in the scary world of life.<\/p>\n<p>But life being scary is a good thing. Scary is what makes it exciting. My college years had tons of twists and turns that I would have never expected, so I can\u2019t fathom how many the \u201creal world\u201d will have. But that\u2019s the point of college. It gets you ready to handle those twists and turns, so that you can make the most out of the roller-coaster ride that makes life so scary. After all, what\u2019s the point of a roller coaster if you\u2019re not having fun?<\/p>\n<p>So, that\u2019s where I stand right now. Excited and terrified. I don\u2019t know that either of those emotions are going to subside soon, but that\u2019s fine. It keeps me on my toes, and it keeps me looking forward to what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow. And the next day. And the day after that. Like I said, I don\u2019t have a great deal of my days figured out. That\u2019s fine by me.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Messer, Molecular Biology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m graduating soon. I would say how soon, but the number of weeks reminds me of how much work I still need to get done. So, \u201csoon\u201d will suffice. It feels a little bit like when I graduated from high school, except immeasurably more exciting and terrifying. Let\u2019s talk about the terrifying. The only thing &#8230; <a title=\"This Rollercoaster Called Life&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/this-rollercoaster-called-life\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about This Rollercoaster Called Life&#8230;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ag-ambassadors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Le20-js","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}