{"id":7,"date":"2023-11-17T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allisonlambert.me.holycross.edu\/?p=7"},"modified":"2023-11-17T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T22:00:31","slug":"episode-i-the-beginning-of-the-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/2023\/11\/17\/episode-i-the-beginning-of-the-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode I \u2014 The Beginning of the Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Holy Cross community! I&#8217;m elated to introduce myself as a new blogger in Holy Cross&#8217;s blogging program. I&#8217;m Allison, a freshman here at the College and having a wonderful experience thus far.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2023\/11\/4A0C17A6-3E0F-492B-8CFE-575FCA62817E-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"A girl wearing a black zip-up hoodie and green flowery skirt pretends she's holding up the stones at Stonehenge, with a huge dorky grin on her face.\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here I am at Stonehenge, helping to ensure one of the great wonders of the world stays upright!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A little bit about me: academically, I&#8217;m planning to study English, thinking about adding Spanish as a second major, and looking forward to taking an Environmental Studies class next semester. I&#8217;m currently on a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">huge<\/span>\u00a0<em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em> kick right now, and Taylor Swift has been gracing my Apple Music as of late\u2014but, in all honesty, when is she <em>not<\/em>? Hailing from my hometown of Westwood, Massachusetts, I&#8217;m finding Holy Cross to be the perfect distance: a nice change of scenery, yet I&#8217;m able to go home for a weekend if the homesickness really sets in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to share my thoughts and experiences with you all! The tentative plan is to post once a week, but my workload is increasing as the semester wraps up. In any case, you can expect to hear from me at least once every two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all from me for now! Just wanted to hop on here and quickly introduce myself. I&#8217;ll see you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Holy Cross community! I&#8217;m elated to introduce myself as a new blogger in Holy Cross&#8217;s blogging program. I&#8217;m Allison, a freshman here at the College and having a wonderful experience thus far. A little bit about me: academically, I&#8217;m planning to study English, thinking about adding Spanish as a second major, and looking forward &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/2023\/11\/17\/episode-i-the-beginning-of-the-blogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode I \u2014 The Beginning of the Blogs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/allisonlambert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}