{"id":2856,"date":"2017-11-14T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2017-11-14T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:02:44","slug":"meet-alyssa-moving-over-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/meet-alyssa-moving-over-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alyssa: Moving Over the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Alyssa. I&#8217;m 25, mother to two amazing kittens and I ran away from home. Well, I didn&#8217;t run but I left with a spring in my step and a smile on my face. I have lived in Rochester, New York my whole life and my first time out of the nest is here, in London. It has been an amazing ride so far. I have met people from around the world, seen more history than all the American history combined and tasted food I couldn&#8217;t have imagined. London is a cultural hub to experience, learn and grow.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to go on too long of a rant. My &#8220;Welcome to my Channel&#8221; video will explain more why I have moved &#8220;over the pond&#8221; and please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCjUR5QMMSFzjziI4HPOYJvQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out my YouTube Channel<\/a>. I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing my adventures to a new crowd. We have a long road ahead of us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Welcome to my Channel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1f3dVdpS8gk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, My name is Alyssa. I&#8217;m 25, mother to two amazing kittens and I ran away from home. Well, I didn&#8217;t run but I left with a spring in my step and a smile on my face. I have lived&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[413,424,482,484,653],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london","category-student-experience","tag-life-in-london","tag-london","tag-moving-over-the-pond","tag-moving-to-london","tag-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}