{"id":183886,"date":"2026-01-14T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/?p=183886"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:40:25","slug":"motivational-speaker-event-jan-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/2026\/01\/14\/motivational-speaker-event-jan-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivational Speaker Event, Jan. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Culture Exchange Club is pleased to invite you to a motivational talk by Mr. Shinji Maeda on Wednesday, Jan. 21.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>More Information:<\/h2>\n<p>The Japanese Culture Exchange Club is pleased to invite you to a motivational talk by Mr. Shinji Maeda on Wednesday, January 21, from 3:30\u20134:30 PM in Building T, Room 121.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Maeda will deliver a speech titled, \u201cI\u2019M POSSIBLE: There Is Nothing Impossible.\u201d The speaker&#8217;s\u00a0dream of becoming a pilot seemed to disappear when he lost sight in one eye following an automobile accident in Japan at the age of 18. However, after learning that he could still pursue his dream in the United States, he became a student at Bellevue College, improved his English, and enrolled in an aviation school.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Mr. Maeda is a flight instructor and has recently completed a solo flight around the world in a single-engine plane. Through his story, he assures students that setbacks are not the end of the journey. With courage and perseverance, dreams can still be achieved \u2014 turning \u201cimpossible\u201d into \u201cI\u2019m possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join us and gain inspiration and energy from Mr. Maeda\u2019s powerful motivational speech!<\/p>\n<p>Date: Wednesday, Jan. 21<br \/>\nTime: 3:30-4:30pm<br \/>\nRoom: T121<br \/>\nSpeech: \u201cI\u2019M POSSIBLE: There Is Nothing Impossible\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact <u><a title=\"mailto:anne.stewart@bellevuecollege.edu\" href=\"mailto:anne.stewart@bellevuecollege.edu\" data-outlook-id=\"01c70977-15b7-4405-826e-a92017cd7970\" data-linkindex=\"8\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">anne.stewart@bellevuecollege.edu<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Culture Exchange Club is pleased to invite you to a motivational talk by Mr. Shinji Maeda on Wednesday, Jan. 21. (more&hellip;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-event","category-students"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-13 19:34:18","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184676,"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183886\/revisions\/184676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}