{"id":44,"date":"2014-01-24T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2014-01-24T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:30:03","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this blog has been created for a course first and foremost. But I am hoping to use it for more than just assignments as a way to get my feet wet with writing online.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently a Masters student at UBC and spend most of my time in the lab. It isn&#8217;t too glorious, but I&#8217;ve had my share of near-deaths, adventures, and shenanigans for some time. I spent most of my youth pretty confused and lost, not that I&#8217;m not now, but I figured out what I wanted my life goal to be. To gather stories. They aren&#8217;t all exciting, and they aren&#8217;t all happy. I s&#8217;pose they are more aren&#8217;ts than is&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>In any case. Nose to the grindstone. I have a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of New Brunswick, as well as a BSc in general Biology. I did honours in both programs with a project focused on binge drinking in Anthro and a totally separate project on blueberry agriculture and plant reproductive biology for my BSc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken a long and winding road to get where I am and I&#8217;ll not pretend it was some grand plan. Whatever is is, and it is probably the best thing that could have. Especially when it seems like the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo. I speak a speck of French and a smattering of Spanish, a touch of Sousou and mostly just broken Maritime English. My vernacular reflects this, and I prefer to write the way I think and speak rather than how I probably should. I&#8217;ve been held back for that but that doesn&#8217;t phase me much. We are who we are.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lived in a few parts of the world, and been lucky enough to travel. I&#8217;ve got stories to prove it. Exotic animals, ghosts, thieves, brigands, shamans, witches, but mostly other wanderers like me. Maybe a few will make they way out here.<\/p>\n<p>So, hopefully this succeeds &#8211; in that I&#8217;ll pass my course (ha) and more importantly figure out how to write well for blog-style media. Maybe then I can keep a journal of my happenings and nonsense up here in the interwebs. Till then, back to the lab.<\/p>\n<p>Ciaos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this blog has been created for a course first and foremost. But I am hoping to use it for more than just assignments as a way to get my feet wet with writing online. I am currently a Masters student at UBC and spend most of my time in the lab. It isn&#8217;t too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22421,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/duncanmac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}