{"id":69,"date":"2021-03-29T11:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/?p=69"},"modified":"2021-04-13T19:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T02:33:38","slug":"at-home-in-2020-milou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/2021\/03\/29\/at-home-in-2020-milou\/","title":{"rendered":"Milou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/530436175\" width=\"640\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span style=\"color:#3e5665\" class=\"has-inline-color\">&#8220;I hadn\u2019t really thought that much about home or the feeling of home in general, because I\u2019ve always been a pretty ambitious person who wanted to get as far away from rural Montana as possible when I was younger, and everything was kind of built on the traditional ideas of success. And I think the pandemic has really helped me to take a step back and reevaluate my own values and what is important, that finding a sense of&nbsp;home\u2014finding a sense of security and stability\u2014is&nbsp;something that is really important to me and important for me living a healthy, happy life. And I don\u2019t think I would have realized that without this global pause button on everything that I had thought I would be doing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color\" style=\"color:#3e5665\"><strong>Milou<\/strong> is a recent college grad and a friend of the interviewer&#8217;s. At the start of 2020, she was teaching English in Latvia; in the ensuing year she moved back to her childhood home in Bozeman, Montana and later began working from home at a civil legal aid non-profit. Throughout this process, Milou learned that for her, home is often a feeling more than a physical place. It exists in memories, in relationships with others, and especially in one&#8217;s sense of self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color\" style=\"color:#3e5665\">In this interview, Milou talks about the process of interrupting, rediscovering, and reinterpreting home during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#3e5665\">Milou is interviewed by Sophie Penniman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/files\/2021\/04\/FINAL-Milou-Interview-Transcript.pdf\">Download Transcript<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/files\/2021\/04\/FINAL-Milou-Interview-Transcript.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hadn\u2019t really thought that much about home or the feeling of home in general, because I\u2019ve always been a pretty ambitious person who wanted to get as far away from rural Montana as possible when I was younger, and everything was kind of built on the traditional ideas of success. And I think the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70810,"featured_media":457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home-in-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2020recollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}