{"id":3667,"date":"2013-05-14T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howlheritage.com\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2013-05-14T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:44:45","slug":"pottery-unchained-by-julia-garcia-amber-poer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/?p=3667","title":{"rendered":"POTTERY, UNCHAINED by Julia Garcia &#038; Amber Poer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>200 students submitted to the SW Washington art show; only twelve went to the state competition. Leila Stutesman was among them. She has two pottery pieces; required by the show she puts them up for sale, Taking pride in them she comments that \u201cshe\u2019s greedy about her pots\u201d because she would rather keep them than sell them.<\/p>\n<p>Leila started pottery her sophomore year and couldn\u2019t get enough and has taken six other pottery classes since. She plans to continue at Clark next year; although, making a career out of pottery is not Leila\u2019s idea of a future job. She does it for fun and her enjoyment of the beautiful pieces she creates. \u201cIt makes me feel like I can express myself fully through pottery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/65580191?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not only is she passionate about pottery but also bowling and softball thanks to her father; Ron Stutesman, who has been her mentor and coach ever since she was 7 years old playing T-ball for Evergreen Little League. <!--more-->Bowling was Leila\u2019s idea after a friend convinced her to join; all that was next was buying a new ball, and taking to the lanes for some practice.Through her determination and hard work going every Saturday to junior\u2019s league at Allen\u2019s Crosley lanes. Practicing with her father Leila has mastered a sport she never thought she\u2019d play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel proud to be on first team all-league because I earned it\u201d as she talks about being first time all-league for both bowling and softball; which is rewarded to student athletes that are chosen by the coaches in the district for their outstanding performance. She also received the highest bowling average of the year with a score of 186 at Heritage. When asked what sport she favorite most Leila responded with softball because it has been the constant sport throughout her life that makes her happy and the fact she\u2019s really good at it, makes it a plus.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how she balanced sports and school, she responded with \u201cI go home right after school and do my homework\u201d so that she is able to keep up her 3.8 GPA. Being able to balance both her school life and after school life is very important to her. When she\u2019s not practicing sports or creating a new pot, Leila likes to spend her time with friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>200 students submitted to the SW Washington art show; only twelve went to the state competition. Leila Stutesman was among them. She has two pottery pieces; required by the show she puts them up for sale, Taking pride in them she comments that \u201cshe\u2019s greedy about her pots\u201d because she would rather keep them than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}