{"id":303878,"date":"2010-02-10T18:28:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T23:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011038349_strugglingyouth.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-10T18:28:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T23:28:24","slug":"struggling-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303878","title":{"rendered":"Struggling youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Telling their story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I commend Sara Jean Green for her article highlighting YouthCare and ROOTS [\u201cMore aid for homeless youth,\u201d NWThursday, Feb. 4]. Many readers know little about the thousands of Seattle youth struggling to find housing, job training and basic necessities \u2014 or about the organizations struggling to serve them. However, both Green and her editor should apologize to Kevin McMillen Jr. for their carelessness in running his comment regarding his parents.<\/p>\n<p>I was with McMillen and his classmates as a volunteer the day your article printed. Each student was in awe and felt empowered by the $7.7 million gift to their center. McMillen was initially thrilled to see his photo above the fold. However, his excitement quickly diminished as he realized he would be unable to share his delight with his parents. McMillen quietly expressed his disappointment that, of all the things he shared with Green, she would choose that piece [of information]. An article meant to emphasize the importance of youth empowerment instead became a source of anxiety and shame for a student it featured.<\/p>\n<p>Parental failure and a young man\u2019s struggle to articulate his disappointment are not news. McMillen\u2019s noticeable passion, perseverance, curiosity and vibrant personality are newsworthy.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Nathan Hollifield, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telling their story I commend Sara Jean Green for her article highlighting YouthCare and ROOTS [\u201cMore aid for homeless youth,\u201d NWThursday, Feb. 4]. Many readers know little about the thousands of Seattle youth struggling to find housing, job training and basic necessities \u2014 or about the organizations struggling to serve them. However, both Green and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}