{"id":767,"date":"2022-06-09T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/?p=767"},"modified":"2022-06-09T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:21:31","slug":"interview-with-nanou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/2022\/06\/09\/interview-with-nanou\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with &#8220;Nanou&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suzanne Schmitz Lear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>grew up in Brussels, Belgium<\/li><li>has an older brother, Stephan<\/li><li>very strict upbringing, parents focused on her brother<\/li><li>education was much more difficult in Belgium compared to the US<\/li><li>top of her class<\/li><li>maiden name is Schmitz<\/li><li>\u201cIf a school is filled with stupid kids, it\u2019s boring.\u201d<\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>didn\u2019t come with the intention of staying<\/li><li>came to America with a green card<\/li><li>wanted independence and to experience American culture<\/li><li>never heard of marijuana before coming to the US<\/li><li>all her education credits transferred, but after getting married Nanou wanted to finish a degree and she was advised to become a teacher<\/li><li>she wanted to continue her schooling<\/li><li>studied at Montclair State and got her teaching license, and then years later just after having kids she got her MBA from Rutgers<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fell in love with my grandpa so she decided to stay<\/li><li>They met in a bar a few months after she came to America<\/li><li>Came when she was 20&nbsp;<\/li><li>Had learned British English but the accent change from what she learned was shocking<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne Schmitz Lear grew up in Brussels, Belgium has an older brother, Stephan very strict upbringing, parents focused on her brother education was much more difficult in Belgium compared to the US top of her class maiden name is Schmitz \u201cIf a school is filled with stupid kids, it\u2019s boring.\u201d didn\u2019t come with the intention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}