{"id":1318,"date":"2015-03-04T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2015-03-18T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:42:57","slug":"the-ubc-name-project-alexandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/2015\/03\/04\/the-ubc-name-project-alexandra\/","title":{"rendered":"The UBC Name Project &#8211; Alexandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Alexandra<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/784724521573924\/photos\/pb.784724521573924.-2207520000.1426700440.\/799145393465170\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1319 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/files\/2015\/03\/Alexandra-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Alexandra\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/files\/2015\/03\/Alexandra-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/files\/2015\/03\/Alexandra-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/files\/2015\/03\/Alexandra-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/files\/2015\/03\/Alexandra.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got the nickname \u2018Alex\u2019 in Grade 6. It\u2019s so common to abbreviate names like \u2018Alexandra\u2019 to \u2018Alex\u2019 here in Canada, but when I lived in Holland, people called me \u2018Alexandra.\u2019 They were so weirded out that my nickname was \u2018Alex,\u2019 because apparently it was mostly a male name over there.<\/p>\n<p>My name means \u2018the defender of mankind\u2019 or \u2018the defender of warriors,\u2019 and I think I live up to that meaning a lot. I\u2019m a passionate social justice activist &#8211; I have worked with Me to We in Shanghai, and my goal is to make a career through creating a sustainable change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra I got the nickname \u2018Alex\u2019 in Grade 6. It\u2019s so common to abbreviate names like \u2018Alexandra\u2019 to \u2018Alex\u2019 here in Canada, but when I lived in Holland, people called me \u2018Alexandra.\u2019 They were so weirded out that my nickname &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/2015\/03\/04\/the-ubc-name-project-alexandra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83199,1096507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equity-ambassadors","category-the-ubc-name-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}