{"id":21,"date":"2017-09-20T03:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/09\/20\/2017919humans-of-hamden-lauren-mcgrath\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:54:39","slug":"2017919humans-of-hamden-lauren-mcgrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/09\/20\/2017919humans-of-hamden-lauren-mcgrath\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Hamden: Lauren McGrath"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          \n          \n          \n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:2500.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:66.68000030517578%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  data-animation-override\n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_9970.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9970.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_9970.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_9970.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"2500x1667\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"IMG_9970.jpg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"59c16545d2b85734a636bebb\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p class=\"text-align-right\">Photo by Karli Regalbuto<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karli Regalbuto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lauren McGrath is a junior journalism major at Quinnipiac University. Her minor is creative writing and she is from Long Island, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Upon first glance, McGrath is on the shorter side and has fair skin. She has medium length curly blonde hair, matched with a big smile and bright blue eyes. Just from that description alone, one may have already created their own version of who they think she is. However, McGrath revealed deeper parts of her personality as she spoke.<\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\" \n<p>    data-animation-override><br \/>\n    <span>&#147;<\/span>I\u2019m the editor of the Barnacle, which is like the satire newspaper on campus,\u201d she said. \u201cI really love creative writing and I want to go to into like comedy writing. That\u2019s more \u2018creative\u00a0journalism,\u2019 so I wanted to have that background.<span>&#148;<\/span>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>She goes on to explain what she thinks makes her unique.<\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\" \n<p>    data-animation-override><br \/>\n    <span>&#147;<\/span>I say a lot of stuff that people don\u2019t expect me to say,\u201d McGrath said. \u201cI\u2019m like a small little blonde girl and then I think people are surprised when I curse or make crude jokes and stuff, which is like one of my favorite things to do.<span>&#148;<\/span>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When asked about the world and what has surprised her, Lauren responded candidly about her feelings on the President.<\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\" \n<p>    data-animation-override><br \/>\n    <span>&#147;<\/span>Surprised about?\u201d she said. \u201c\u2018Sad about\u2019 is a better (term). Just basically the state of America and the world and\u00a0I hate Donald Trump with every fiber of my being, and his supporters, which is terrible to say, but like the people that are like die-hard supporters that are like sexist, racist (and) I just can\u2019t understand or agree with.<span>&#148;<\/span>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Connecting to some of the major stories affecting the area and the country, McGrath had a lot to say about the hurricanes as well.<\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\" \n<p>    data-animation-override><br \/>\n    <span>&#147;<\/span>Oh, it\u2019s so sad,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think another thing that is really sad is that I heard a lot of people,\u00a0I don\u2019t remember which hurricane it was, it was either Irma or Harvey, it hit Cuba instead of Florida and everyone was like \u2018Oh thank god it hit Cuba\u2019 and I was like \u2018there are still people in Cuba.\u2019 Like, you should still be sad about that. It\u2019s really terrible and I feel like Mother Nature is kind of coming back and being like \u2018f**** you guys\u2019 because we\u2019ve made so many problems in the world.<span>&#148;<\/span>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The last topic that Lauren touched upon was the paving in Hamden. She voiced her concern about the decision to pave right around when students began moving back to campus.<\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\" \n<p>    data-animation-override><br \/>\n    <span>&#147;<\/span>Why would they wait until we came back to school?\u201d she said. \u201cLike, why would they not do it as soon as we left, it just didn\u2019t make any&#8230;it\u2019s just f***ing Quinnipiac&#8230;like they always do everything in the worst possible way. It\u2019s good they\u2019re paving the roads, but they just have to do it in the worst way possible, because that\u2019s how Quinnipiac works.<span>&#148;<\/span>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This is a part of who Lauren McGrath is, a short, outspoken girl from Long Island. She is a human of Hamden and Quinnipiac.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Karli Regalbuto By Karli Regalbuto Lauren McGrath is a junior journalism major at Quinnipiac University. Her minor is creative writing and she is from Long Island, New York. Upon first glance, McGrath is on the shorter side and has fair skin. She has medium length curly blonde hair, matched with a big smile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/09\/20\/2017919humans-of-hamden-lauren-mcgrath\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Humans of Hamden: Lauren McGrath<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humans-of-hamden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}