{"id":783,"date":"2011-10-10T20:12:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2011-10-10T20:12:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:12:04","slug":"the-conversation-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/the-conversation-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conversation has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:'Myriad Pro';color:#000000;\">A couple weeks ago I made an announcement to Colleagues in the Student Government Association about efforts to change our campus community. \u00a0This announcement\u00a0was the beginning of a conversation with the student body about the issues that matter, issues that impact students every day. \u00a0It was on that first day I reminded my colleagues something simple yet important: <a href=\"http:\/\/sga.cofc.edu\/we-are-limitless\/index.php\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We Are Limitless<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0We Are Limitless is a conversation about how together as a student body we are strong enough to change our campus, city, state, country, and world. \u00a0I believe in the ability of our student body to change things, to create positive change and am encouraged \u00a0by what I see every day. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t long ago that I learned that it is important to have a healthy\u00a0disregard\u00a0for the impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:'Myriad Pro';color:#000000;\">The first part of this conversation is about <a href=\"http:\/\/sga.cofc.edu\/we-are-limitless\/cycling-and-skateboarding.php\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">transportation<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0Today, we live in a city that is neither bicycle nor skateboard friendly. \u00a0Our city has incredibly limiting skateboarding ordinances and lacks the necessary bicycle lanes to support the growing cycling community. \u00a0Cyclists seem forgotten, like the stepchild of motorists. \u00a0What we all need to remember is that roads were not designed for just cars. \u00a0We must educate each other to share the roads. \u00a0We are all looking to get from point A to point B and do it safely. \u00a0From this, along with members of the community I have established a Cycling Safety Committee where we are looking for ways to educate students at the College to ride their bicycles safely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:'Myriad Pro';color:#000000;\">I&#8217;d like to thank you for taking the time to read this and hope you check back for further information as our conversation continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:'Myriad Pro';\">Ross Kressel, President of the Student Body<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"geo-post-783\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">32.787036<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-79.938817<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I made an announcement to Colleagues in the Student Government Association about efforts to change our campus community. \u00a0This announcement\u00a0was the beginning of a conversation with the student body about the issues that matter, issues that impact students every day. \u00a0It was on that first day I reminded my colleagues something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}