{"id":11020,"date":"2025-09-09T07:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/?p=11020"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:49:44","slug":"nate-walker-where-im-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/nate-walker-where-im-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Walker &#8211; Where I&#8217;m From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11021\" src=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11022\" src=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-2-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11023\" src=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nature-Center-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m from Rye NY, so I&#8217;ve included photos from the Rye Nature Center. I worked there as a conservationist throughout high school, and I know the trails like the back of my hand. I added two photos with animals, because my favorite part of working there was seeing them. Whenever I could, I&#8217;d pull invasive plants in the most remote spots, hoping to see new animals. Whenever I&#8217;m home, like this past weekend, I make sure to stop their at least once. even when I&#8217;m not working I can spend a whole day there. Often times when people hear I&#8217;m from New York, they immediately wonder what brought me to Maine, and I think my experience at the nature center can go a long way in explaining that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m from Rye NY, so I&#8217;ve included photos from the Rye Nature Center. I worked there as a conservationist throughout high school, and I know the trails like the back of my hand. I added two photos with animals, because my favorite part of working there was seeing them. Whenever I could, I&#8217;d pull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-task"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11025,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions\/11025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}