{"id":1480,"date":"2018-10-15T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2022-08-17T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:40:37","slug":"quiet-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/2018\/10\/15\/quiet-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"y-cig  guten-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"y-cig--inner content-left vert-top\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-cig--left\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"y-cig--title\">Quiet Distraction<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-cig--intro\"><p>It was like any other day after school as this young girl entered the centre, encircled by her friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-cig--content\"><p>Normally her routine would involve going into the gym and joining her friends in a high energy game of basketball, volleyball or literally just running around in circles.\u00a0 Yet on this particular day, she curled up on one of the comfy chairs and began to isolate herself on her cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>As I sat quietly beside her, I was gifted with her trust and she began to share what her daily world looked like with her home, school, peers and life in constant change.\u00a0 With a heavy sigh she fell into silence and I simply asked, \u201cWhat can we do here that will help you?\u201d\u00a0 With an intense look she asked, \u201cCan you be a quiet distraction?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the remainder of the week, this young girl would come to the centre and sit quietly beside a volunteer and knit.\u00a0 It was exactly what she needed.\u00a0 That is the amazing thing about our ministry at YFC.\u00a0 It does not have to always be about the \u2018doing\u2019, but for some of our youth the important moments are about the \u2018being\u2019 and being safe in that moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-cig--right\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-c-gallery extend\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-c-gallery--sticky\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-c-gallery--slick medium\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-c-gallery--slide\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/08\/QuietDistraction.jpg);\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/08\/QuietDistraction-300x116.jpg\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":1481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-support"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}