{"id":11436,"date":"2022-02-09T19:38:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2022-02-09T19:38:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:38:28","slug":"quilting-for-fun-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/2022\/02\/09\/quilting-for-fun-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilting for Fun and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/Jenna-Merry.png\" alt=\"Jenna Merry stands behind geometrical quilt she made\" class=\"wp-image-11437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/Jenna-Merry.png 636w, https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/Jenna-Merry-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenna Merry joined the fall 2021 Quilting for Fun and Community Honors seminar and completed two infant sized quilts which were donated to a refugee families. &#8220;I loved putting my sewing skills to work and my crafting-brain to an activity that I could pass on to someone in need,&#8221; Jenna said, &#8220;and although my work was not perfect, I know that I made a little difference in a family&#8217;s lives.  Quilting was something I had never done before and learning that new skill and mastering it in order to benefit someone else&#8217;s holidays was so rewarding, and I hope to do something similar (picking up a new hobby that can be donated in a way) in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Merry joined the fall 2021 Quilting for Fun and Community Honors seminar and completed two infant sized quilts which were donated to a refugee families. &#8220;I loved putting my sewing skills to work and my crafting-brain to an activity that I could pass on to someone in need,&#8221; Jenna said, &#8220;and although my work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":11437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture","category-campus-community","category-children","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11438,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions\/11438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}