{"id":34964,"date":"2022-06-16T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=34964"},"modified":"2022-06-15T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:13:40","slug":"oklahoma-city-teenagers-ask-policymakers-not-to-downplay-their-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2022\/06\/16\/oklahoma-city-teenagers-ask-policymakers-not-to-downplay-their-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City teenagers ask policymakers not to \u2018downplay&#8217; their experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/c76fa9fe-2a89-41f8-b7d9-19e50a209eb0\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahmari Sango and Aspen Harrod want to be heard.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too often, the pair of Northwest Oklahoma City teens told StateImpact, voices like theirs are simply ignored by decision makers.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In their conversation with StateImpact\u2019s Robby Korth on the cusp of high school graduation, they say there are some encouraging strides being made in representation, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/04\/16\/mauree-turner-first-muslim-nonbinary-lawmaker-adapts-oklahoma-legislature\/7091949002\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">specifically the election of Rep. Mauree Turner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2020. But there\u2019s still more work to be done. And young people like them are happy to take up that mantle.<\/span><\/p><p>This story was produced by KOSU&#8217;s Kateleigh Mills.<\/p><p><script async src=\"https:\/\/modules.wearehearken.com\/kosu\/embed\/9445.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffAhmari Sango and Aspen Harrod want to be heard.Too often, the pair of Northwest Oklahoma City teens told StateImpact, voices like theirs are simply ignored by decision makers.In their conversation with StateImpact\u2019s Robby Korth on the cusp of high school graduation, they say there are some encouraging strides being made in representation, specifically the election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":34965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34968,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964\/revisions\/34968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}