{"id":338,"date":"2015-10-26T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-11-03T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:10:27","slug":"dumbfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/2015\/10\/26\/dumbfounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking down Discovery Avenue,<br \/>\nI am dumbfounded by the avenue,<br \/>\nthat is a college education; this oh so glorified education.<br \/>\nThe road to scholarly liberation.<br \/>\nYet is this truly liberation,<br \/>\nIf I am perceivably in need of salvation,<br \/>\nSalvation which led my motherland to procrastination;<br \/>\nand poverty; the malnourished child plagued by starvation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Am I but a dumbfounded youth?<br \/>\nCascading through these undulating truths;<br \/>\nLost in the sound of maroon leaves,<br \/>\nand cold feel as the summer leaves.<br \/>\nThe cold feel that is winter&#8217;s presence,<br \/>\nmarked by hot chocolate &amp; spine chilling breeze.<br \/>\nI wallow in this university centred adversity,<br \/>\nperplexed by animosity and academic controversy.<br \/>\nI traverse the Okanagan in search of serenity.<br \/>\nWhat Serenity?! Am I a lost cause? Am I&#8230;?<br \/>\n&#8230; hope is my only escape,<br \/>\nI only hope it can save me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nene Azu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking down Discovery Avenue, I am dumbfounded by the avenue, that is a college education; this oh so glorified education. The road to scholarly liberation. Yet is this truly liberation, If I am perceivably in need of salvation, Salvation which led my motherland to procrastination; and poverty; the malnourished child plagued by starvation&#8230; Am I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/2015\/10\/26\/dumbfounded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dumbfounded<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30331,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1261628],"tags":[10,1261630],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-voice","tag-featured","tag-your-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}