{"id":506,"date":"2016-12-01T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/?p=506"},"modified":"2017-02-06T01:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T08:13:27","slug":"connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/2016\/12\/01\/connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember an example that my art appreciation instructor used constantly is the writing of someone makes you feel closer to that person.<\/p>\n<p>I personally like Chinese characters. Thanks for my parents, who insisted on me practicing my writing when I was young.<\/p>\n<p>I now still sign in my Chinese name. 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example that my art appreciation instructor used constantly is the writing of someone makes you feel closer to that person. 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I write some random &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/2016\/12\/01\/connections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Connections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mandychen42\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}