{"id":4312,"date":"2018-04-11T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2018-04-11T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:11:15","slug":"dear-taylor-swift-inspire-amelia-stella-inspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2018\/04\/11\/dear-taylor-swift-inspire-amelia-stella-inspirations\/","title":{"rendered":"Amelia and Stella video convo #TaylorSwift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylorswift13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Swift<\/a>, kindly meet Amelia\u00a0and Stella, two very special teens from Homer High School, in Homer, Alaska. You inspire Stella to be herself, and you brighten her life everyday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nMy name is Amelia Springer and I compiled this video for my friend Stella, who says she is the #1 Taylor Swift fan! I love watching Stella dance and sing to Taylor Swift songs at lunch and thought how amazing it would be if Stella ever got the chance to meet her in person.<br \/>\nStella has down syndrome and I have a rare type of ectodermal dysplasia, AEC, which is a skin condition and was #21 in the world diagnosed with my specific type.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet Taylor Swift&#039;s #1 Fan, Stella\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HWvtyR5Jp-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>&#8220;I want this video to show people that we are individuals outside of our conditions, because I often feel that medical conditions <\/strong><strong>are looked at from the medical side of things and I want people to see the brilliant minds and personalities\u00a0 behind the conditions.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080\">&#8211; Amelia Springer<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Stella and I both have our syndromes we don\u2019t let them define us, which is my goal for this video.<br \/>\nMy other goal for this video is for it to possibly reach Taylor Swift so Stella experience her dream of meeting her!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>So please like this video and share it!<br \/>\nLet\u2019s see how far this gets!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2018\/04\/Stella-and-Maria-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4320\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2018\/04\/Stella-and-Maria-2-1024x603.png\" alt=\"Stella and Maria (2)\" width=\"517\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Taylor Swift, kindly meet Amelia\u00a0and Stella, two very special teens from Homer High School, in Homer, Alaska. You inspire Stella to be herself, and you brighten her life everyday.\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2018\/04\/11\/dear-taylor-swift-inspire-amelia-stella-inspirations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amelia and Stella video convo #TaylorSwift&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[338,500,588,611,961,1017],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-down-syndrome","tag-homer-high-school","tag-kenai-peninsula-borough-school-district","tag-kpbsd","tag-special-education","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}