{"id":322,"date":"2021-06-08T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/?p=322"},"modified":"2021-10-14T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:11:19","slug":"wesley-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/2021\/06\/08\/wesley-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>I  am a passionate writer and a voracious reader. I earned my associate degree in literature and creative writing from Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC).  I am currently working towards my bachelor&#8217;s degree at New York University (NYU) where I am studying African American representation through storytelling as part of the Gallatin Guide program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am fascinated by how people of color are represented in all mediums and how that affects their identity. I plan on becoming a public school teacher and a young adult (YA) author. I am working on my first novel about a black superhero growing up in a city where even though he has superpowers, he has to overcome racism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>Interviewee &amp; Interviewer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a passionate writer and a voracious reader. I earned my associate degree in literature and creative writing from Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). I am currently working towards my bachelor&#8217;s degree at New York University (NYU) where I am studying African American representation through storytelling as part of the Gallatin Guide program. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/2021\/06\/08\/wesley-sanders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wesley Sanders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":777,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-particpants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/womens-herstory-month-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}