{"id":165622,"date":"2020-11-27T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=165622"},"modified":"2020-10-27T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:39:10","slug":"uconn-magazine-just-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/11\/uconn-magazine-just-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Just Folk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After completing her degree in policy at the School of Social Work, Lara Herscovitch \u201995 MSW traveled around the world for six years as an education specialist for Save the Children, carrying her guitar as a traveling companion around the U.S. and on several continents, singing and writing songs as she had done since childhood. In 1998, a friend invited her to perform with him in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single light bulb in my heart and soul went off,\u201d she says, recalling that. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t even a choice. I knew I had to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herscovitch spent nearly two decades leading a dual life. Weekdays, she was a social worker evaluating a nonprofit program, writing a grant, or testifying before a legislative committee. At night or on weekends she would head to a recording studio, an open mic night, or a scheduled performance while creating and releasing six albums on her own LaRama Records label.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2020\/10\/15\/just-folk\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lara Herscovitch \u201995 MSW spent nearly two decades leading a dual life. Weekdays, she was a social worker. At night or on weekends she would head to a recording studio, an open mic night, or a scheduled performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":165624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870,2235,102],"tags":[2253],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1918],"class_list":["post-165622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","tag-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 00:29:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165630,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165622\/revisions\/165630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/165624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165622"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=165622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=165622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}