{"id":1456,"date":"2013-12-26T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2013-12-26T07:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T12:23:37","slug":"thank-you-mr-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Mr. Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In high school I served as my neighborhood representative on the Mayor’s Youth Council. \u00c2\u00a0My two years were the second and third years of Mayor Menino’s youth council. \u00c2\u00a0It was such an awesome experience. \u00c2\u00a0Our group problem solved problems we felt teens faced and made a real tangible difference. \u00c2\u00a0During my tenure we successfully had the hours of student T passes extended and created what is now the Mayor’s Youth Line- a resource of youth service that is now online (then a call in service). \u00c2\u00a0I met lots of great people I still connect with, and learned a lot about how city government works. \u00c2\u00a0I saw first hand Mayor Menino’s love for Boston. \u00c2\u00a0I truly believe one of the reasons we still live in the city- and our kids go to public school- is because of what I learned then.<\/p>\n

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With Mayor Menino leaving office soon, there have been lots of tributes. \u00c2\u00a0Our group was amongst them. \u00c2\u00a0There was a reunion held and it was such a great time. \u00c2\u00a0I reconnected with old friends and was reminded again of why this experience made such an impact on my life. \u00c2\u00a0The Mayor was clearly moved by the tributes, and those of us on the older end, were moved by his words telling us that it was us- not him- who made the changes Boston needed for youth. \u00c2\u00a0He seemed to not want to leave, and stayed to take pictures with all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In high school I served as my neighborhood representative on the Mayor’s Youth Council. \u00c2\u00a0My two years were the second and third years of Mayor Menino’s youth council. \u00c2\u00a0It was such an awesome experience. \u00c2\u00a0Our group problem solved problems we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}