{"id":25,"date":"2017-09-20T03:26:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/09\/20\/2017919humans-of-hamden-kathy-ross\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:54:40","slug":"2017919humans-of-hamden-kathy-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/09\/20\/2017919humans-of-hamden-kathy-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Hamden: Kathy Ross"},"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\/P1000851.jpg\" alt=\"P1000851.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/P1000851.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/P1000851.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"2500x1667\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"P1000851.jpg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"59c1660ff43b55a026808d95\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p class=\"text-align-right\">Photo by Shauna Golden<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karli Regalbuto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kathy Ross is a retired nurse from North Haven, Connecticut. She is a mother of six middle-aged children: four sons and two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>She is an older woman and has noticeable wrinkles on her face and hands. Her hair is a shade of white and her skin is fair. Ross wears glasses and has light blue eyes. One may create their own idea of who Ross is just by looking at her. However, the conversation dove deeper into the life of Kathy Ross.<\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\" \n<p>    data-animation-override><br \/>\n    <span>&#147;<\/span>I\u2019m still working, part time, at Health Tracks and I\u00a0exercise 6 days a week,\u201d Ross said. \u201cI love to swim. I grew up in Wilson, Connecticut, a very small town. And I trained in New York City at St. Vincent\u2019s Hospital. And then\u00a0when I was forty-ish, I decided I wanted to go back to school, so I went to the University of Hartford and got my undergraduate degree in psychology and then went to UConn and got a degree in adult education. Because I love education. I did most of my career in hospital infection control, St. James\u2019 for 20 years and then I retired from the VA in 2003.<span>&#148;<\/span>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When asked about what she considered to be her unique quality, Ross said her naturally curly hair. She followed up by saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know&#8230;I think I have a pretty good sense of humor. So yeah, I like people, I like what I do, and I have a very good life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kathy briefly touched upon issues such as the hurricanes. She recalled the hurricanes during \u2018her day\u2019 by saying they were fun.<\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\" \n<p>    data-animation-override><br \/>\n    <span>&#147;<\/span>What did I have to do?\u201d she said. \u201cNothing. I was all taken care of and, you know, it was kind of scary, but I was very secure. Oh, I knew hurricanes when I was a girl, let me tell you. <span>&#148;<\/span>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>She not only viewed the hurricanes in a positive light, but she also looked at the roads being paved in Hamden as a positive.<\/p>\n<figure >\n<blockquote data-animation-role=\"quote\" \n<p>    data-animation-override><br \/>\n    <span>&#147;<\/span>It\u2019s annoyed me&#8230;but in a good way,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s progress, it\u2019s good. We get so used to having our own way and just being able to go where we want to go.<span>&#148;<\/span>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ross, the retired nurse, the mother of six and the positive woman.&nbsp;She is a human of Hamden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Shauna Golden By Karli Regalbuto Kathy Ross is a retired nurse from North Haven, Connecticut. She is a mother of six middle-aged children: four sons and two daughters. She is an older woman and has noticeable wrinkles on her face and hands. Her hair is a shade of white and her skin is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/09\/20\/2017919humans-of-hamden-kathy-ross\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Humans of Hamden: Kathy Ross<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-25","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\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}