{"id":2487,"date":"2015-11-23T20:30:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/history\/?p=139"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:01:00","slug":"megan-smith-class-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/megan-smith-class-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Smith, Class of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><figure><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 26, 0); font-family: span, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">What are you doing now?<\/span><\/figure><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2501\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith.webp 681w, https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith-420x420.webp 420w, https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith-190x190.webp 190w, https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith-450x450.webp 450w, https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/11\/smith-485x485.webp 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am working in South Korea with E.P.I.K (English Program in Korea) as an English as a Second\u00a0Language teacher. I&#8217;ve been here since October of 2012, and I currently work at three small elementary\u00a0schools in rural Sancheong-gun County, about 45 minutes north of the southern coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How have your history studies helped you in life?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a much more well rounded outlook. Taking courses in the history of the wider world humbles a\u00a0person and gives them a more complex understanding of other cultures and customs. I realize the difference history has made in my life wheneverI decided to teach overseas. History has always been an interest of mine, but teaching in a foreign\u00a0country has only accentuated that interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Smith, Class of 2008, is now working in South Korea with E.P.I.K (English Program in Korea) as an English as a Second Language teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":4533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-history","category-history-alumni-spotlight"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"kostoyic","author_link":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/author\/kostoyic\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/ValpoCampus5-Resized-300x192.webp","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/alumni-spotlight\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alumni Spotlight<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/history\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">History<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/history-alumni-spotlight\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">History Alumni Spotlight<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alumni Spotlight<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">History<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">History Alumni Spotlight<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 23, 2015","modified":"Updated on July 24, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 23, 2015 8:30 pm","modified":"Updated on July 24, 2025 9:01 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}