{"id":13,"date":"2018-01-16T16:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.pprd.odu.edu\/mind-the-gap-template\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2018-01-16T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T21:38:49","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Souad Knight, I am a 47 years old and live in Hampton, Virginia. I have been with my husband for 23years and have two beautiful boys, Farriss (10) and Sammy (8). We have two dogs, an 8 year old rescue Pekingese named Petey and the newest member of the Family, Sheba.\u00a0 A six month old German Sheppard. We also have a Guinea pig that I adore so much because he has a character and a cute personality. I am originally from Morocco but\u00a0 have lived in the USA for the last\u00a0 24years.\u00a0\u00a0 I have been a stay home\u00a0 mom with a part-time job as a substitute teacher. I will say that my moments of meditation is when I am in the kitchen cooking, or cleaning my house, or when I pick my sewing machine and sew something new to decorate my house I also enjoy gardening. The outdoors is another way for me to meditate and relax. I enjoy a good day just by cleaning my flower beds and rearranging my plants and flowers or picking my herbs, fruits and vegetables. I am an old fashion woman (maybe even an old soul) who likes nature and loves to be natural. Last year I decided to go back to school and further my education. My boys are growing up and they are becoming independent so I have decided to pursue a career to fill the gap that is to come when they are teenagers and gone to college. I have an Associate in Science but have been out of school for many years. I have chosen EDUCATION as my career path for that is where my passion lies.\u00a0 I plan to teach ESL (English as a Second Language). I chose ESL because I am myself a foreigner and I have taken ESL.\u00a0 I believe I will be able to relate directly with my future students for I will have traveled the same path in which they will just be starting.\u00a0\u00a0 I believe in paying it forward as I have always tried to do so. I am a mom, a wife, and there is no more noble a profession than that of an educator.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vf1gDKc_t2w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Pay it Forward!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Souad Knight, I am a 47 years old and live in Hampton, Virginia. I have been with my husband for 23years and have two beautiful boys, Farriss (10) and Sammy (8). We have two dogs, an 8 year old rescue Pekingese named Petey and the newest member of the Family, Sheba.\u00a0 A&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9202,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/souad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}