{"id":551,"date":"2026-08-25T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/?p=551"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:12:31","slug":"affirmation-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/25\/affirmation-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if you feel scared or anxious to try something new, do not let it prevent you from opening new opportunities \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0584-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Macaulay honors mountain lion mascot stuffed animal\" class=\"wp-image-839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0584-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0584-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0584-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0584-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0584-1300x1733.jpeg 1300w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/IMG_0584-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you feel scared or anxious to try something new, do not let it prevent &hellip; <a title=\"Affirmation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/25\/affirmation-25\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Affirmation<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,16],"tags":[92,89,98,95],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","category-hunter-college","category-social-sciences","tag-freshmen","tag-hopeful","tag-macaulay","tag-orientation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}