{"id":2010,"date":"2013-05-21T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:18:50","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration by Keegan Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard for me to pinpoint a single thing about the London trip that I loved the most. The scenery, both in the city and the countryside, was magnificent and breathtaking, and the history was richer than anything I&#8217;ve ever seen in the states. The food was delicious, and the people were kind and friendly, but the main thing I took away from this trip was what I gained from seeing the theatre. Not so much the simple joy and happiness from simply seeing a show, but something a bit more exciting.<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired by every show I saw over in London. As a student actor, there are plenty of rough times, and it&#8217;s easy to get disheartened. But every little doubt I had about my career was washed away the second the current rose for our very first show. The actors were on a completely new level, bringing me both tears of joy and sadness. They weren&#8217;t flawless by any means, but they were astounding. As the current fell, I felt a raging fire in my chest. While I did enjoy my stay in London, I now had an urge to return home. I wanted to start working again, improving and turning myself into a better actor. These professionals were like deity&#8217;s to me, and I wanted to be on their level more than anything.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I left London with many things; New memories, new pictures, new friends, and a new incentive to continue acting. And I wouldn&#8217;t trade these things for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard for me to pinpoint a single thing about the London trip that I loved the most. The scenery, both in the city and the countryside, was magnificent and breathtaking, and the history was richer than anything I&#8217;ve ever seen in the states. The food was delicious, and the people were kind and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/inspiration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inspiration by Keegan Lee<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}