{"id":2741,"date":"2025-10-21T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2025\/10\/21\/reflection-80\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:55:00","slug":"reflection-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2025\/10\/21\/reflection-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event reinforced some of the ideas I&#8217;ve had about museums, but had also shown me a new experience I wouldn&#8217;t have had, had I not attended N@tM. I&#8217;ve always loved the variety of exhibits in a museum, the silence that allows for quiet reflection, and the feeling of learning something new when you walk out. Tonight was different, though, because I got to share that moment of learning with a group of friends. The quiet thoughts I would usually keep to myself were being listened to and elaborated on by my peers, and they&#8217;ve introduced more perspectives that I wouldn&#8217;t have thought of myself. I learned that visiting museums do not have to be a solo activity, but can be even more fun if you go with a group. It was a very special experience full of growth, discovery, and connection, and I hope for all Macaulay students to have the same experience we did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event reinforced some of the ideas I&#8217;ve had about museums, but had also shown me a new experience I wouldn&#8217;t have had, had I not attended N@tM. I&#8217;ve always loved the variety of exhibits in a museum, the silence that allows for quiet reflection, and the feeling of learning something new when you walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}