{"id":21,"date":"2025-04-24T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:34:54","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_5972.jpeg\" alt=\"Ecocritical still life: four square compartments in conjoining bookcases with books (Nick Sousanis, &quot;Unflattening&quot;; Robert Macfarlane, &quot;Holloway&quot;; Andy Goldsworthy, Yorkshire Sculpture Park exhibit catalogue; Rachel Carson, &quot;The Sea Around Us&quot;; Jeff VanderMeer, &quot;Wonderbook&quot;; Jean-Michel Folon, &quot;La Mort d\u2019un arbre), plants, a crocheted cactus, and a Western Atlantic puffin figurine (used to be a keyring until liberated from its chain). Originally arranged as a background while teaching from home under pandemic lockdown, then photographed for use as a Zoom background. Composition and photo: Juliet O\u2019Brien, 2020.\" width=\"2463\" height=\"2010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_5972.jpeg 2463w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_5972-300x245.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_5972-1024x836.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_5972-768x627.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_5972-1536x1253.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_5972-2048x1671.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_5972-620x506.jpeg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2463px) 100vw, 2463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/licensebuttons.net\/l\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">This site <\/a> is copylefted under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a> and encourages creative <a href=\"http:\/\/metametamedieval.com\/about\/#freefairingen\">free equitable joyful ingenious play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site is copylefted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and encourages creative free equitable joyful ingenious play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}