{"id":551,"date":"2016-08-23T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/?p=551"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:00:18","slug":"where-im-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/where-im-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;m At"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Fitness<\/p>\n<p>By Sarah Walls<\/p>\n<p>I have always been a fairly active person. Ever since I was a little kid, my hobbies included things like hiking, kayaking, rock climbing, and swimming. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed being outside as much as possible. I am at my happiest when I&#8217;m in nature; whether it&#8217;s a forest or a lake or a mountain or an ocean, I feel the most connected to the world and to myself when I&#8217;m in an environment like that. I&#8217;m excited for being assigned the health and fitness beat because I think combining my love for the outdoors with a health and fitness aspect will be something I really enjoy writing about. I think that&#8217;s what I would be the biggest advocate for: leading a healthy lifestyle by finding an outdoor activity you are passionate about.<\/p>\n<p>As far as writing goes, however, I&#8217;ve never really covered a story specifically about health and fitness. I&#8217;ve done plenty of pieces regarding the outdoors and activities or adventures I&#8217;ve had, but I think targeting that health and fitness angle will add a new challenge for me. I&#8217;m not the kind of person who wants to write about counting calories or fad diets. I&#8217;d rather try to inspire people by highlighting exciting events, new activities one could try, or through interesting stories about other outdoor advocates. I believe that one shouldn&#8217;t just say &#8220;I want to be healthy. I want to be fit&#8221;. I think the real success and lifestyle change comes from saying &#8220;I want to find a new passion. I want to find something I enjoy that will also help me live a healthier and fitter lifestyle&#8221;. Those are the kind of stories I would want to cover; people trying to find the balance between healthiness and happiness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Fitness By Sarah Walls I have always been a fairly active person. Ever since I was a little kid, my hobbies included things like hiking, kayaking, rock climbing, and swimming. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed being outside as much as possible. I am at my happiest when I&#8217;m in nature; whether it&#8217;s a forest or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/where-im-at\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where I&#8217;m At<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Ndkv-8T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}