{"id":312,"date":"2009-08-05T08:38:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-08-05T08:38:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:38:38","slug":"a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2009\/08\/05\/a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture&#8217;s Worth a Thousand Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-289 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/06\/lynn-104x150.jpg\" alt=\"lynn\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" \/>Believe it or not, I don&#8217;t care for the picture of me that accompanies my blogs.\u00a0 The photographer said &#8220;don&#8217;t smile&#8221;, so I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 The result is a slightly confused-looking version of my better self.\u00a0 I try not to look at it when I view my blogs, but it&#8217;s hard to ignore that unhappy face.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that the picture is more important than (or even as important as) the words beside it, but I just can&#8217;t reconcile that mean-looking person with the friendly words she writes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve felt this way before.\u00a0 I interview hundreds of students each year.\u00a0 The conversation I have with a student matters so much more than the look on their face or the outfit they wear.\u00a0 But a confused\/mean\/bored face can be a distraction from a really nice story.\u00a0 So no matter what anyone tells you&#8230;show me that smile.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nStill waiting for photo make-up day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Verrecchia<br \/>\nSr. Assistant Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, I don&#8217;t care for the picture of me that accompanies my blogs.\u00a0 The photographer said &#8220;don&#8217;t smile&#8221;, so I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 The result is a slightly confused-looking version of my better self.\u00a0 I try not to look at it when I view my blogs, but it&#8217;s hard to ignore that unhappy face.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2009\/08\/05\/a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Picture&#8217;s Worth a Thousand Words&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[122,123,163],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lynn-verrecchia","tag-interview","tag-interview-tips","tag-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}