{"id":2543,"date":"2015-12-06T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T06:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2015-12-06T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T06:56:51","slug":"the-competitor-who-broke-the-tradition-of-miss-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/soul-career\/the-competitor-who-broke-the-tradition-of-miss-america.html","title":{"rendered":"The competitor who &#8220;broke&#8221; the tradition of Miss America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelley Johnson, Miss Colorado 2015, surprised the jury and the entire audience with a unique presentation in the &#8220;Miss America 2016&#8221; testing talents competition stage.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of singing, wearing a shiny suit or dancing in order to get the wanted crown, <strong>the young Kelley decided rather to talk about her nurse job<\/strong> in front of the numerous audience in Atlantic City.<\/p>\n<p>On the second evening of the preliminaries, Kelley walked quietly on the stage, dressed in her usual nurse uniform, and began to present a short monologue about her professional experiences. She exposed her experience and feelings during the period in which she nursed an elderly patient, suffering from Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEvery nurse has a patient that reminds them of why they became a nurse in the first place. Mine was Joe,\u201d <em>she began.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We invite you to watch this short but beautiful presentation:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fve-video-wrapper fve-image-embed fve-thumbnail-image youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nYoCW1DQWQE?wmode=transparent&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>    <\/div>\n<p>Despite the fact that many people advised Kelley not to present a monologue (taking into account the tradition of the talent stage), she ignored them:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I am a nurse and that&#8217;s my talent<\/strong> \u2013 taking care of people, caring about other people, and so I wanted to give the nurses that don&#8217;t have that voice that voice and that recognition of just somebody going up there and being a little bit different and unique (&#8230;). And I just thought, you know, I want to go up there and <strong>I want to be authentic<\/strong> <strong>and I want to be Kelley<\/strong>, and if I&#8217;m ever going to win Miss America or win Miss Colorado I want to do it being myself, and I&#8217;m a nurse<\/p>\n<p>The two minutes long monologue determined spectators and viewers to rethink their hunting of beauty and talents. The audience hurrahed Kelley for a long time for her sudden exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley Johnson ended the Miss America 2015 contest as 2nd runner-up. But she has gained national recognition for her sustained monologue and will certainly stay for a longer time in the Miss America audience&#8217;s memory.<\/p>\n<p>But Kelley&#8217;s first impact was the gaining of a greater respect for the thousands of nurses who say: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m just a nurse&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Pro Jesus&#8217; sources:<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Corithios A., \u201eMiss Colorado Kelley Johnson Defends Nurse Monologue After Being Mocked on\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u201d, <em>PEOPLE Magazine<\/em>, September 17, 2015<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Diamond B., \u201eMiss Colorado Talks About Nursing Instead Of Singing For The Crown\u201d, <em>LittleThings.com<\/em>, accessed\u00a0in November 30, 2015<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelley Johnson, Miss Colorado 2015, surprised the jury and the entire audience with a unique presentation in the &#8220;Miss America 2016&#8221; testing talents competition stage. Instead of singing, wearing a shiny suit or dancing in order to get the wanted crown, the young Kelley decided rather to talk about her nurse job in front of&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/soul-career\/the-competitor-who-broke-the-tradition-of-miss-america.html\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[162,191],"tags":[295,294,267],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/635778208940644625-Miss-America-Powe-1-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projesus.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}