{"id":1844,"date":"2010-04-11T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374015316604240842.post-4926047049526529420"},"modified":"2010-04-11T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:05:27","slug":"reflection-span365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/2010\/04\/11\/reflection-span365\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection: Span365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s absolutely insane to think how fast this semester has gone. Where was this time-flying ability back in October?? Looking back through all my blogs, we certainly covered a lot of interesting material. I have never been much for literature, analysis, interpretation or anything of the sort, but I&#8217;m actually surprised at how much I have learned and how much I have understood while reading each book. <\/p>\n<p>I do have to say my favorite book was El Reino de Este Mundo. The concept of &#8216;lo maravilloso&#8217; instead of &#8216;lo magico&#8217; was much more applicable in my mind &#8211; everyone seems to apply the word &#8216;magic&#8217; to things beyond their understanding, even though it usually doesn&#8217;t work that way. I felt the integration and contrasts between the interpretations of the slaves and the &#8216;blancos&#8217; was incredibly realistic, in that these differences still apply to the modern world. Also, I enjoyed the story which somewhat followed Ti Noel in his experiences &#8211; it was almost as though a movie could be made where a camera just follows his daily life\/encounters (The Truman Show style). The question Jon asked in class (not too sure if it was specifically regarding this book or not&#8230;) that affected me the most was asking what exactly is real and what isn&#8217;t &#8211; I find it incredibly difficult to answer this question regarding any kind of book because it&#8217;s near impossible to apply modern day concepts and interpretations to non-modern ideas or stories, especially when the integrity of a culture is in question. <\/p>\n<p>All side-tracking aside, I thoroughly enjoyed the open-mindedness of the course and the discussion\/ideas that were brought up in class. And now&#8230; back to the Wikipedia project!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/374015316604240842-4926047049526529420?l=phxalana.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s absolutely insane to think how fast this semester has gone. Where was this time-flying ability back in October?? Looking back through all my blogs, we certainly covered a lot of interesting material. I have never been much for literature, analysis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-span365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}