{"id":40884,"date":"2018-03-20T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/?p=40884"},"modified":"2023-12-28T07:10:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T15:10:47","slug":"decided-become-bahai-jessica-kemejuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/decided-become-bahai-jessica-kemejuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Decided to Become a Baha\u2019i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Kemejuk\u2014actress, spiritual seeker, and new <a href=\"\/bahai-faith\">Baha\u2019i<\/a>\u2014grew up in Los Angeles, where she suffered from bullying and racism because of her mixed-race, half-Japanese and half-Russian ethnicity. In a journey to find someplace where she would be accepted for her whole self, she encountered and tried on many spiritual modalities, until she met a Baha\u2019i. Then, she says, for her the Baha\u2019i writings and prayers \u201cresonated in this place that only truth does.\u201d She witnessed the vibrancy, honesty and clarity of the <a href=\"\/bahai-faith\">Baha\u2019i<\/a> community, and decided to become a follower of <a href=\"\/bahaullah\">Baha\u2019u\u2019llah<\/a>. Watch and listen as Jessica explains what impelled her to walk that spiritual path.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to the podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bahaiteachings\/why-decided-to-become-bahai-jessica-kemejuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Kemejuk\u2014actress, spiritual seeker, and new Baha\u2019i\u2014grew up in Los Angeles, where she suffered from bullying and racism because of her mixed-race, half-Japanese and half-Russian ethnicity. In a journey to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15783,"featured_media":65486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82558,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40884\/revisions\/82558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40884"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaiteachings.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=40884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}