{"id":1412,"date":"2018-02-01T13:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T21:03:51","slug":"student-spotlight-brock-bourek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/2018\/02\/01\/student-spotlight-brock-bourek\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Brock Bourek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1413 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2018\/01\/image_6483441-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"image_6483441\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2018\/01\/image_6483441-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2018\/01\/image_6483441.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brock Bourek has always had a passion for theatre and the arts that led him to Morningside College. He is currently a junior with a double major in arts administration and theatre and a minor in religious studies.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he chose Morningside, Bourek&#8217;s answer was simple. He explained that he loved the theatre department as well as the beautiful campus. Bourek said, &#8220;I felt at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bourek said he loves the small campus size,\u00a0how friendly everyone is and the endless opportunities that are available to get involved on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Bourek doesn&#8217;t pass up any opportunity that comes his way to get involved on campus. He currently participates in the theatre department, College Choir, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a music fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega, a theatre honor society, and Brockapella, an\u00a0acapella group that Bourek started two years ago. Additionally, he is a member of Residence Life working as a Resident Assistant. He stated, &#8220;I appreciate that there are endless opportunities for all students to be involved on campus regardless of their background or experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After graduation, Bourek plans to move to a larger city and do some form of professional theatre. He said, &#8220;Eventually down the line, I would like to open and run my own theatre company.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Bourek has always had a passion for theatre and the arts that led him to Morningside College. He is currently a junior with a double major in arts administration and theatre and a minor in religious studies. When asked why he chose Morningside, Bourek&#8217;s answer was simple. He explained that he loved the theatre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}