{"id":20537,"date":"2021-10-14T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=20537"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:42:37","slug":"meet-our-retired-faculty-member-karen-rossbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/meet-our-retired-faculty-member-karen-rossbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Retired Founding Faculty Member, Karen Rossbach!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20538 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KarenInStory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Position while at MPA:<br \/>\nArt Teacher<\/p>\n<p>How many years did you work at MPA?<br \/>\n37<\/p>\n<p>What do you miss the most about MPA?<br \/>\nI miss my students, who were always excited to be in class and enjoyed spending time together creating with various materials. I also miss my colleagues who are the hardest working and most collaborative people I know.<\/p>\n<p>What have you been up to since leaving MPA?<br \/>\nMy retirement has not taken an expected or &#8220;normal&#8221; path thus far. With any hopes of travel severely restricted, I have spent most of my time care-giving my mother, since the pandemic started. Being &#8220;her bubble&#8221;, I helped mom connect with family members through Facetime and Zoom visits. I basically lived a life of virtual meetings, Zoom workouts, and coffees. I even attended a four day virtual National Art Educators Conference. When I could carve out some extra time I would work in my garden planting chard, basil and other greens. I also spent time finally setting up a home studio space. I am looking forward to changing times and hopeful retirement opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Position while at MPA: Art Teacher How many years did you work at MPA? 37 What do you miss the most about MPA? I miss my students, who were always excited to be in class and enjoyed spending time together creating with various materials. I also miss my colleagues who are the hardest working and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,28,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-blog","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20561,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537\/revisions\/20561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}