{"id":2836,"date":"2017-08-31T22:20:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2017-08-31T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:22:47","slug":"grady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/08\/31\/grady\/","title":{"rendered":"Grady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2846 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/files\/2017\/08\/file1-e1504204195757-292x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One thing Davidson has taught me is that I am neither as accomplished a writer nor as avid a reader as I once believed.<br \/>\nThis realization has encouraged me to abandon pretense and defense mechanisms in favor of appreciating authenticity in a variety of forms and experiences, no matter how mundane.<\/p>\n<p>This class attracted me as an escape from the confines of my comfort zone. I look forward to the unorthodox, inter-medium works we will be reading. I have always admired the blending of image and text that characterizes avant-garde movements like Dada from a distance, but never studied or attempted to replicate it.<\/p>\n<p>As far as my other interests go, I enjoy brainstorming and structuring literary works. I have started countless works of fiction and completed none. Hopefully, trying new styles and cross-genre methods will make me a freer, more successful writer. Drawing is another hobby of mine. I would like to write and illustrate something someday. I have a lot of notes and sketches, but few drafts. Maybe you can relate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing Davidson has taught me is that I am neither as accomplished a writer nor as avid a reader as I once believed. This realization has encouraged me to abandon pretense and defense mechanisms in favor of&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/08\/31\/grady\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":2848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_2071.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}