{"id":9936,"date":"2022-12-13T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9936"},"modified":"2022-12-13T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:01:18","slug":"christian-alvear-final-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/12\/13\/christian-alvear-final-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Alvear Final Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSalvation\u201d by Langston Hughes is the reading that I connected with the most because of the experience Langston faced. His aunt wanted him to be \u201csaved\u201d to hear and feel Jesus in his soul. Me, I went to Catholic school growing up but never paid attention during mass and religion class because it wasn\u2019t of great interest to me. My grandmothers specifically would tell me to always pray, go to mass, and invite Jesus into my life. This was something I didn\u2019t want to do because quite simply it wasn\u2019t important to me and just like Langston, I never felt anything. Langston went through the whole celebration and was the last one to go up to the altar because he didn\u2019t feel or see anything. Langston ended up crying that night because he knows he deceived everyone in the church and lied about his experience because he didn\u2019t feel anything. I related to Langston\u2019s exact feeling because after my sacraments I lied to my family about feeling like a brand new person and more spiritual.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSalvation\u201d by Langston Hughes is the reading that I connected with the most because of the experience Langston faced. His aunt wanted him to be \u201csaved\u201d to hear and feel Jesus in his soul. Me, I went to Catholic school growing up but never paid attention during mass and religion class because it wasn\u2019t of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5969,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-final-discussion","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9937,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions\/9937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}