{"id":3,"date":"2011-01-14T10:08:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/?p=3"},"modified":"2011-01-24T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:11:22","slug":"self-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/2011\/01\/14\/self-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Nick Knoop, I&#8217;m a 4th year political science major doing my best to graduate in May. Working on going to law school, but that is still a bit up in the air at this point.<\/p>\n<p>From the US originally, came to Canada to experience something different and ski some Whistler powder. I&#8217;m a Boston sports fan, my family is from there and I&#8217;ve grown up watching the Sox and Celtics&#8230; And after living in Canada, I have learned that SportsCenter and SportsCentre are two entirely different things.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to this class: I love the idea that the work we are doing is current, as we see democracy developing, failing, and evolving everyday in the news. I feel like the fundamental question of politics is figuring out how true and accurate the democratic process really is, and I&#8217;m sure that is a question we will confront often in this class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Nick Knoop, I&#8217;m a 4th year political science major doing my best to graduate in May. Working on going to law school, but that is still a bit up in the air at this point. From the US originally, came to Canada to experience something different and ski some Whistler powder. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nknoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}