{"id":98,"date":"2026-05-30T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:19:26","slug":"merit-brustman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/profiles\/merit-brustman\/","title":{"rendered":"Merit Brustman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/files\/2026\/05\/Brustman-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/files\/2026\/05\/Brustman-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/files\/2026\/05\/Brustman-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/files\/2026\/05\/Brustman-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/files\/2026\/05\/Brustman-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/files\/2026\/05\/Brustman-2048x1638.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where are you from? (Hometown)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Springfield, Virginia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Major\/Minor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Performing Arts Major<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What are you most excited to learn and to do while abroad in Scotland &amp; England?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m honestly just super excited to visit a different country and see all the locations we are going to visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If you could travel back in time, where and when would you like to go? and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would travel back in time to the first battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. I grew up in Virginia and have been to several battlefields in that area including that one. The regular civilians at the time thought the war was going to be over in one battle, but it ended up being what it was. I think it would be really interesting to hear from them why they thought the war would be so short because they did not take it seriously at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is your favorite Shakespeare play or character or Shakespeare-inspired film?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gnomeo and Juliet. I quote lines from that movie with my sister all the time<br><br><strong>What is your favorite way to express yourself creatively?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve found recently that I really enjoy writing down a fantasy story world. Creating characters, landmarks, history, everything. Not writing a story, but creating a fantasy world that a book could be written about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are you from? (Hometown) Springfield, Virginia Major\/Minor Performing Arts Major What are you most excited to learn and to do while abroad in Scotland &amp; England? I&#8217;m honestly just super excited to visit a different country and see all the locations we are going to visit. If you could travel back in time, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/148"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/scotland2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}