{"id":772,"date":"2023-06-30T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&#038;p=772"},"modified":"2023-06-30T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:19:49","slug":"class-of-23-diversely-cohesive","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/class-of-23-diversely-cohesive\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of &#8217;23: Diversely Cohesive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Hess and Andrew Lantz described their class as &#8220;diversely cohesive&#8221; in the final chapel of the year. Covid-19 shaped their class of 33, which spent much of their high school career online, masked, and socially distanced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had to rely entirely on each of our own personal wills to interact and socialize with each other,&#8221; Hess and Lantz noted. &#8220;These losses of activities and social opportunities caused our class structure to be somewhat divided&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group began to bond, however, in the fall of &#8217;22 with their time in Washington, DC. Many listed &#8220;senior trip&#8221; as a favorite memory during end-of- year presentations.<\/p>\n<p>With this issue of Today, we celebrate the class of &#8217;23 and other milestones marked this spring at EMS, thankful for graduates who are ready to go into the world and be part of God\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_783\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-783\" class=\"wp-image-783 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0993-1024x617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0993-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0993-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0993-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0993-1536x926.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0993-2048x1235.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors decorated (and cleaned up!) the auditorium for the final chapel of the year.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Hess and Andrew Lantz described their class as &#8220;diversely cohesive&#8221; in the final chapel of the year. Covid-19 shaped their class of 33, which spent much of their high school career online, masked, and socially distanced. &#8220;We had to rely entirely on each of our own personal wills to interact and socialize with each&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[35],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-spring-summer-2023"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/772\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}