{"id":235,"date":"2017-03-16T18:10:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T01:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/?p=235"},"modified":"2017-03-17T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:54:35","slug":"la-tia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/la-tia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;La t\u00eda&#8217; challenges norms to pursue her dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 717px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-236\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt2-e1489700451740-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt2-e1489700451740-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt2-e1489700451740-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt2-e1489700451740-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt2-e1489700451740-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oswaldo&#8217;s aunt, Sara at the restaurant, El Hurachito, in Lincoln Heights in 2016. (Photo courtesy of the V\u00e1zquez family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oswaldo V\u00e1zquez&#8217;s aunt, Sara Shakir, emigrated from Mexico City to the United States alone when she was 20\u00a0years old.<\/p>\n<p>Sara is Oswaldo&#8217;s maternal aunt, the third of five siblings. Oswaldo&#8217;s sister, Sandy, refers to their aunt Sara as the black sheep of the family\u2014the rebel, the one who challenged the norm and moved out of her house at a very young age to freely pursue her aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Sara admits that she has made many mistakes, but says she carries a &#8220;growth mindset.&#8221; In Mexico City, she took journalism classes and once in the United States, she eventually worked as a radio producer at KPFK 90.7. \u00a0In 2007, she won the Rub\u00e9n Salazar Award\u00a0for Best Radio News. Oswaldo and Sandy often refer to their aunt as an example to follow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" style=\"width: 684px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-237 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/Aunt.jpg 1825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oswaldo and aunt Sara at Sandy&#8217;s UCLA graduation ceremony in 2016. (Photo courtesy of the V\u00e1zquez family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oswaldo V\u00e1zquez&#8217;s aunt, Sara Shakir, emigrated from Mexico City to the United States alone when she was 20\u00a0years old. Sara is Oswaldo&#8217;s maternal aunt, the third of five siblings. Oswaldo&#8217;s sister, Sandy, refers to their aunt Sara as the black sheep of the family\u2014the rebel, the one who challenged the norm and moved out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}