{"id":2441,"date":"2023-05-21T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:16:16","slug":"im-always-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/2023\/05\/21\/im-always-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Always Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">I&#8217;m Always Here<\/h1>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-author-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mayagiron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"wp-block-post-author-name__link\">Maya Giron<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/819530544?h=78d6c97046&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"My Name is Spring-A-Doodle\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Sydney Boucher, 22, of North Adams, Mass., is a legal guardian to her seven-year-old niece Addilyn Spence. \u201cI\u2019m Always Here\u201d is an audio\/photo slideshow that details Sydney\u2019s unique bond with Addilyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sydney struggles to figure out how to act as a parent figure while also sorting out her own life and future. Being forced to step into a parent role so quickly, she begins to question traditional gender roles that have been placed on her at a young age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-910x607.jpg 910w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-1484x989.jpg 1484w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SecondaryWithCaption-1984x1323.jpg 1984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sydney dances in the kitchen of her boyfriend&#8217;s apartment on Meadow St., on March 17, 2023. &#8220;Me and my mom both had the teachings that the perfect life for a woman is to grow up, fall in love get married,&#8221; says Sydney. &#8220;And I wanna show her that life has many different paths and that&#8217;s not the only way to be a successful woman. There\u2019s so much more.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Boucher, 22, of North Adams, Mass., is a legal guardian to her seven-year-old niece Addilyn Spence. \u201cI\u2019m Always Here\u201d is an audio\/photo slideshow that details Sydney\u2019s unique bond with Addilyn.<br \/>\nSydney struggles to figure out how to act as a parent figure while also sorting out her own life and future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[328,339,338],"tags":[352,350,28,349,109,43],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-328","category-storyessay","category-video","tag-coming-of-age","tag-custody","tag-family","tag-maya-giron","tag-rit","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/capstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}