{"id":1336,"date":"2013-10-21T21:12:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english-dev\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=1336"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:58:40","slug":"karrin-peterson-2","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/staff\/karrin-peterson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Karrin Peterson, J.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Karrin Peterson: mother, wife, daughter, English instructor, gardener, and \u201csustainable living\u201d activist. Because of the passion I feel for my roles, I find the lines between each blur and merge, as the jagged teeth of the Olympic Mountains and the ember sky do when I am sitting on my deck at 10:30 on a clear summer eve. I steal such moments when I need to find myself again. But I also find myself in the student garden and in my classrooms, both live and online. Teaching and gardening are so very similar. In the garden, I help students plant seeds. With sun, water, and a little love (not unlike the love a mother gives the child), plants emerge and grow to feed our bodies and our minds with the marvel of life. So it is in the classroom. There, I strive to plant seeds of self-motivation and method, so all my students can grow to become competent writers \u2013 a skill necessary to meet their full potential and to find fulfilling, happy spaces within our complicated world, as I have. Thus, I find solace in teaching, and a sense of wonder and gratitude for the privilege of watching people grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":486,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1336","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1336\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}