{"id":2,"date":"2009-05-06T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T07:21:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-06T22:58:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T06:58:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 2px 5px;\" title=\"me\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/files\/2009\/05\/me.jpg\" alt=\"me\" width=\"294\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/files\/2009\/05\/me.jpg 294w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/files\/2009\/05\/me-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>TED and Me<\/em> is both a course activity (see <a href=\"http:\/\/met.ubc.ca\/met_courses\/descriptions\/etec565.htm\">here<\/a>) and a personal\/professional blog about my interests with regards to technology and education.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m a language instructor at a university in Hong Kong with a myriad of interests (ranging from comics, sci-fi, linguistics, technology and culture to\u00a0 &#8230; oh, food). Originally from Canada, I&#8217;ve been teaching throughout China for about 7 years now, focusing on ESL for academic and\/or professional purposes, and literature. As I continue my career and studies, I&#8217;ve had the pleasure and privilege to learn and introduce different ways of using technoloigies in education. Life is a big journey. I hope you can enjoy it with me.<\/p>\n<p>Sean McMinn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome. TED and Me is both a course activity (see here) and a personal\/professional blog about my interests with regards to technology and education. Me? I&#8217;m a language instructor at a university in Hong Kong with a myriad of interests (ranging from comics, sci-fi, linguistics, technology and culture to\u00a0 &#8230; oh, food). Originally from Canada, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcminnetec565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}