{"id":1,"date":"2013-09-19T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/?p=1"},"modified":"2013-09-19T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T00:20:07","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/2013\/09\/19\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello world! (My attempt at a blog post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello\/bonjour.<\/p>\n<p>This being my first blog ever, I&#8217;m not really sure where to start.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Devin Belanger, but most people prefer to just use the mono-syllabic version of my name: &#8220;Dev&#8221;. Whatever floats your boat.<\/p>\n<p>As far as things about me, I enjoy long walks on the beach, romantic candlelit dinners, and a good mystery novel. Just kidding.<\/p>\n<p>If I could sum myself up in one word, I would choose: &#8220;Wanderlust&#8221;.<br \/>\nThere is nothing I enjoy more than travelling, except for perhaps losing myself in nostalgia; reminiscing about my adventures with whoever will listen.<\/p>\n<p>Travelling was, in fact, what led me to become fascinated with philosophy&#8211; one has a considerable amount of time to think while backpacking alone through South-East Asia.<\/p>\n<p>While I haven&#8217;t read many, my favourite philosophical works include\u00a0<strong>The Stranger by Camus<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Kafka&#8217;s Metamorphosis<\/strong>. Some of my favourite non-philosophical books include\u00a0<strong>David Mitchell&#8217;s Ghostwritten\u00a0<\/strong>as well as many sci-fi classics, such as <strong>1984, Dune<\/strong> and<strong>\u00a0Ender&#8217;s Game.\u00a0<\/strong>When I&#8217;m not acting all pretentious and intellectual, however, I love to DJ &amp; produce dance music, party at shows around town, and attend the gym to keep healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Till next time \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n&#8211; Dev(in)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page&#8221; &#8211; Saint Augustine of Hippo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello\/bonjour. This being my first blog ever, I&#8217;m not really sure where to start. My name is Devin Belanger, but most people prefer to just use the mono-syllabic version of my name: &#8220;Dev&#8221;. Whatever floats your boat. As far as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/2013\/09\/19\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/devbelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}