{"id":2083,"date":"2020-02-02T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T09:45:52","slug":"stephanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/2020\/02\/02\/stephanie\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_post_title et_pb_post_title_0 et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left\">\n<h1 class=\"et_pb_title_container\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 30px\">Then&#8230;<\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2085\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2085\" class=\"wp-image-2085 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2020\/07\/steph-at-16-edited-blurred.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie with her friends, as a teenager\" width=\"617\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2020\/07\/steph-at-16-edited-blurred.jpg 617w, https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2020\/07\/steph-at-16-edited-blurred-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2020\/07\/steph-at-16-edited-blurred-150x152.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2020\/07\/steph-at-16-edited-blurred-250x253.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2020\/07\/steph-at-16-edited-blurred-350x355.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie as a teenager, with her friends.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0 et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><strong>Thinking about yourself as the young woman in your teenage photo, what did you think life held in store for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what I want to do, maybe acting? But definitely not a teacher [note: as it turns out Stephanie did go into teaching and she is now a lecturer at university, so this wasn\u2019t an accurate prediction!]. It will be lovely to leave school and get into the real world.<\/p>\n<h1>&#8230;and now<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_2086\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2086\" class=\"wp-image-2086 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2020\/07\/steph-now-edited-blurred-e1593682846181.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie, now, at work.\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie, now, at her work.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give your younger self now about being young and growing older?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have a bit more self-confidence in what you can do. Things won\u2019t always go as planned but there\u2019s a lot more opportunities out there than you think there are. You are trying to do too much \u2013 \u00a0and I\u2019m afraid that won\u2019t change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_post_nav_0 et_pb_posts_nav nav-single\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then&#8230; Thinking about yourself as the young woman in your teenage photo, what did you think life held in store for you? I have no idea what I want to do, maybe acting? But definitely not a teacher [note: as it turns out Stephanie did go into teaching and she is now a lecturer at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-then-and-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/girlhood-and-later-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}